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1847: Performed on 2 June by the [[Garrison Players|90th Light Infantry]] in the [[Amateur Theatre]], Cape Town, with the farce ''[[The Red Rover, or The Mutiny of the Dolphin]]'' (Fitzball) | 1847: Performed on 2 June by the [[Garrison Players|90th Light Infantry]] in the [[Amateur Theatre]], Cape Town, with the farce ''[[The Red Rover, or The Mutiny of the Dolphin]]'' (Fitzball) | ||
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Revision as of 15:25, 4 January 2016
No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi is a farce in one act by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[1].
Also known as No. 23, John Street, Adelphi, No. 23 John Street, Adelphi and A Card! 23 John Street, Adelphi
The original text
First performed as A Card! 23 John Street, Adelphi on 21 November 1826 in the Adelphi Theatre, London, and published as No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi in Dicks' standard plays ; no. 842 and by John Cumberland. (Cumberland's Minor Theatre, 1825)
South African productions
1847: Performed on 2 June by the 90th Light Infantry in the Amateur Theatre, Cape Town, with the farce The Red Rover, or The Mutiny of the Dolphin (Fitzball)
1847: Performed for the benefit of the Regimental School on 7 July by the 90th Light Infantry in the Amateur Theatre, Cape Town, with The Wreck Ashore (Buckstone) and "A Serio-Comic Burlesque on the Tent Scene" in Richard III (Shakespeare)
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone Allardyce Nicoll. 1930. A History of Early Ninteenth Century Drama 1800-1850 Vol II Cambridge University Press[2]
James Fenimore Cooper, The Red Rover: A Tale (edited by Thomas Philbrick and Marianne Philbrick) SUNY Press, 1991[3]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[4]: pp. 396
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