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High Life Below Stairs is a two-act farce by James Townley (1714-78)[1]

First presented at Drury Lane on October 31, 1759 and published by J. Newberry, London, 1759

1807: Produced on 10 October by the Garrison Players, led by Mr Morgan, Captain Frazer and Captain Collins, as afterpiece to The Brothers (Cumberland). A prologue, written and delivered by Captain Collins, names a number other performers who had become part of the Garrison Players in the years preceding. An epilogue written and delivered by Captain Frazer, concluded the evening's entertainment.

1822: In the African Theatre on 14th and 16th August, 1822 by the Garrison Players, along with John Bull, or an Englishman's Fireside , as a charity performance for shipwrecked sailors.

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 73-5; 179-182; 492, 511

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