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''[[The Omnibus, or A Convenient Distance]]'' is the name given to two adaptations of ''[[Cherry Bounce]]'', the one act farce by Richard John Raymond (fl. 1820-40)
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Also found as ''[[The Omnibus! or, A Convenient Distance!]]''
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
''[[Cherry Bounce]]'' by Richard John Raymond ()[], was first performed at Saddlers Wells Theatre in 1821 (some sources say 1823), and became very popular. There appear to have been two adaptations by this title, one by Isaac Pocock (1782-1835)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pocock] and the other by Tyrone Power (1797-1841)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Power_(Irish_actor)].
 
 
 
According to Allardyce Nicholl (19**), the adaptation done by Isaac Pocock was first performed as ''[[The Omnibus, or A Convenient Distance]]'' in the Lyceum on 225 November 1830 and at Covent Garden on 6 December, 1830. The text published by Duncombe (1831?), Dick 725 and later by Thomas Hailes Lacy (1850) (Lacy’s Acting edition), 1850. His version is also sometimes referred to simply as or simply ''[[The Omnibus]]'' (and termed "an interlude").
 
 
 
However, according to the 1907 American edition of the play by Samuel French (Minor drama ; no. 26), the adaptation had been done by Tyrone Power, whose version was first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1833. The chances are of course that this was simply the Pocock version '''performed or produced''' by Power.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
 
 
1862: Performed as ''[[The Omnibus, or A Convenient Distance]]'' by [[Sefton Parry]] and his company on 11 April, with  ''[[All is not Gold that Glitters]]'' (Morton and Morton). The evening was as a benefit for [[Mr Bland]] and [[Mrs Bland]].
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu//catalog/bib_2096427
 
 
 
https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_2093396
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Pocock
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Power_(Irish_actor)
 
 
 
Allardyce Nicholl. ''A History of Early Ninteenth Century Drama 1800-1850'', Google Play[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=gnc3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA375&lpg=PA375&dq=The+Omnibus,+or+A+Convenient+Distance+by+Raymond&source=bl&ots=kdeRLqze8y&sig=zBQjYFLT0namrjtvPe52KZhufBI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjaiZzInqHWAhVoAcAKHX1XCC8Q6AEINjAE#v=onepage&q=The%20Omnibus%2C%20or%20A%20Convenient%20Distance%20by%20Raymond&f=false]
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 112
 
 
 
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