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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1813: Performed Saturday 14 July by [[Mr Cuerton]]'s company, in association with the [[Garrison Players]] in the [[African Theatre]], under the leadership of [[Mr Cuerton]], as afterpiece to a ''[[Harlequin Pantomime]]'', devised by Mr Cuerton. (Attributed to "Mrs Macready" by F.C.L. Bosman, 1928, p.144).
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1813: Performed 23 October by [[Mr Cuerton]]'s company, in association with the [[Garrison Players]] in the [[African Theatre]], as afterpiece to ''[[The Village Lawyer]]'', and repeated on 6 November to the accompaniment of a whistling performance folk songs by Cuerton himself.  
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 09:42, 23 May 2016

Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday is a grand pantomime, in two acts, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)


The original text

A pantomime version of Daniel Defoe's novel, this was first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1781 and in adapted form at the Theatre-Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1791.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1813: Performed 23 October by Mr Cuerton's company, in association with the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to The Village Lawyer, and repeated on 6 November to the accompaniment of a whistling performance folk songs by Cuerton himself.

Sources

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001369985

David Worrall. 2015. Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment. Routledge (p. 25)[1]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.

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