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Shocking Events is a farce in one act by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[1]
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The original text
First performed at Madame Vestris’s Royal Olympic Theatre, January 15 1838. Published in Dicks' standard plays, no. 808 (with A dead shot) and also in Leipsic (sic) by Hartung, 1845 (in Volume 11 of The modern English comic theatre Issue 30 of Webster's acting national drama.)
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1850: Possibly performed by the Garrison Amateur Players on 9 August as afterpiece to The Rose of Arragon (Knowles). (Attributed to Hall by the company though.)
Sources
Facsimile of the 1845 edition, Google eBook[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 399,
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