Black Sheep

There are a number of plays called Black Sheep.

Black Sheep (1868) by Edmund Yates (1831–1894)[1] and John Palgrave Simpson

The original text

Adapted for the stage from Yates's published novel Black Sheep (Tinsley brothers, 1867) by Yates and Simpson, it was first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre on 25 April 1868. Published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1868.

Performance history in South Africa

1875: Performed in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 5 March, with The Bonnie Fishwife (Selby).

1875: Performed in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 13 April, with Black-Eyed Susan (Jerrold).

Sources

http://www.bartleby.com/library/readersdigest/255.html

http://victorianfictionresearchguides.org/edmund-yates/

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Black_Sheep.html?id=sOwBAAAAQAAJ&redir_esc=y

Facsimile version of the Lacy edition, The Victorian Plays Project[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 322-323

Black Sheep by Elmer Rice (1932)

The original text

A comedy in three acts that opened at the Morosco Theatre in New York City Oct 13, 1932 and played through Oct 1932, directed and produced by Rice.

Sources

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/black-sheep-11645

Black Sheep by Lee Blessing (2001)

The original text

After a public reading at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. October 19-27, 2001, it formally opened at the Florida Stage in Manalapan, Florida in December 14 of the same year.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sheep_(play)

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