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Revision as of 14:27, 18 June 2026

Becky Sharp is a one-act play by Oliver Conway.

Not to be confused with the 1935 film [[1]] or the play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell [2], (Becky Sharp (1899): a dramatization of Thackeray's Vanity Fair).

The original text

Published in One-act Plays of Today edited by J.W. Marriott, 1924 [3].

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1902: Presented by Miss Kate Vaughan's Company at the Opera House, Cape Town in July, produced by Frank de Jong and Leonard Rayne.

1932: Presented by the Repertory Theatre Society, later known as the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society performed on 25 July 1932 with A Marriage Has Been Arranged and The Bride.

Sources

NELM: [Collection: FLETCHER, Jill]: 2005. 75. 19. 61.

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Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.

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