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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== |
Revision as of 15:04, 7 May 2014
A farce in two acts by James Cobb (1756–1818)
First performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 13 January 1787 and printed for C. Dilly in 1787.
Performance history in South Africa
1854: Performed by the City Amateur Theatrical Society on Monday 21 August in the Dutch Company's Bree Street Theatre (corner of Dorp Street), Cape Town, with Mr Ashley playing "Furnish". The play followed on The Mendicant (Á Beckett) and was itself followed by The Secret! (Morris).
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cobb_(librettist).
https://archive.org/details/firstfloorafarc00cobbgoog
http://writersinspire.org/content/first-floor-farce-two-acts-it-now-acting-theatre-royal-drury-lane
Bosman, 1928: pp.427
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