La Pie Voleuse

La Pie Voleuse, ou La Servante de Palaiseau is a melodrama in 3 acts by by Louis-Charles Caigniez and Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny,

Translations and adaptations

Translated and adapted as The Magpie , or The Maid? from the French by Isaac Pocock (1782–1835)[1] and first performed in September 15, 1815, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. It was first printed in 1815 by John Miller and a second edition appeared in 1816.

Also found under the titles Magpie or the Maid, The Maid and the Magpie, or Who's the Thief!!!.

The original text

Also published as The Magpie; Or, the Maid of Palaiseau. A Melodramatic Romance" by John Murray in 1815.

The French play was also the source for Giovanni Gherardini's libretto for Rossini's opera La gazza ladra (1817).

Performance history in South Africa

1832: Performed in English on 9 June 1832 by All the World's a Stage under the title The Maid and the Magpie, or Who's the Thief!!! (Pocock), announced as a "new domestic melodrama" by the company. (Bosman, 1928: p221-2). It was accompanied by The Married Bachelor, or Master and Man (O'Callaghan) and Bombastes Furioso, or The King of Utopia (Rhodes).

1835: Performed in English as The Magpie , or The Maid? as a benefit performance for Mrs Westcott in the Cape Town on 8 October 1835 by the Garrison Players, with Love, Law and Physic (Kenney) as afterpiece.

Sources

Facsimile version if the French text, The Internet Archive [2]

Facsimile version if the English text, The Internet Archive[3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pocock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_Rossini

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp.195, 221-2,

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