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Love à la Mode is a comic satire in two acts by Charles Macklin (1699–1797)[1]

First played: 1759 at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. First published: 1779.

1807: Performed in Cape Town on 29 August by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith).

1824: Performed in Cape Town on 10 April by the English Theatricals amateur company in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz (Hook).

1853: Performed in Grahamstown on Tuesday 11 October by the Garrison Players in the Theatre Royal, with as afterpiece The Three Clerks (Oxberry).

Text of play (1806 version)[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 73, 198, 507

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+Also found as ''[[Love à-la-Mode]]''
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 [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 73, 198, 507