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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
2 November 1822: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Amateur Company]] company ([[Garrison Players]]) in the [[African Theatre]], with ''[[Speed the Plough]]'' (Morton) and the farce ''[[Fortune's Frolic]]'' (Allingham).
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1822: Performed on 7 December  in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town, by the [[Amateur Company]] company ([[Garrison Players]]) with the farce ''[[Fortune's Frolic]]'' (Allingham).
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:11, 7 January 2016

A comedy in five acts by Andrew Cherry (1762-1812). The play, one of many he wrote, was first acted at Drury Lane on 7 February 1804, and appears to have been popular in its time, running to 12 editions between 1804 and 1805. It was also reprinted in 1815 edition and a 1825 edition.


Performance history in South Africa

1822: Performed on 7 December in the African Theatre, Cape Town, by the Amateur Company company (Garrison Players) with the farce Fortune's Frolic (Allingham).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://limerickslife.com/andrew-cherry/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cherry

http://www.forgottenbooks.org/books/The_Soldiers_Daughter_1000305313

http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Soldier_s_Daughter.html?id=fi1TAAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y

Bosman, 1928: pp. 189

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