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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== 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, followed by  ''[[The First Floor]]'' (Cobb) and ''[[The Secret|The Secret!]]'' (Morris).
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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 [[J. Boxer]] in the lead and Mrs Arlington played "Marie". The play was followed by  ''[[The First Floor]]'' (Cobb) and ''[[The Secret|The Secret!]]'' (Morris).
 
 
The lead was  played by [[J. Boxer]] and Mrs Arlington played "Marie".
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 15:05, 7 May 2014

A Drama, in Two Acts by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811 – 30 August 1856)

First performed at St. James's Theatre, Feb. 1, 1836 and published in London by J. Cumberland / Thomas Hailes Lacy , 1836/7.


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 J. Boxer in the lead and Mrs Arlington played "Marie". The play was followed by The First Floor (Cobb) and The Secret! (Morris).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1980007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Abbott_%C3%A0_Beckett

Bosman, 1928: pp.427

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