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1854: Performed again by the [[City Amateur Theatrical Society]] a month later, on Monday 21 August, preceded by ''[[The Mendicant]]'' (G. à Beckett) and ''[[The First Floor]]'' (Cobb) | 1854: Performed again by the [[City Amateur Theatrical Society]] a month later, on Monday 21 August, preceded by ''[[The Mendicant]]'' (G. à Beckett) and ''[[The First Floor]]'' (Cobb) | ||
| − | 1858: There is a remote possibility that this was the text performed as ''[[The Secret of the Hole in the Wall]]'' (no author given) at the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]] on 9 July, 1858, with ''[[Plot and Passion, or The Female Gambler]]'' (Taylor and Lang). However, given that Bosman calls it a "klugspel" ("a farce") suggests that is was was most probably a version of Edward Poole's text ''[[ | + | 1858: There is a remote possibility that this was the text performed as ''[[The Secret of the Hole in the Wall]]'' (no author given) at the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]] on 9 July, 1858, with ''[[Plot and Passion, or The Female Gambler]]'' (Taylor and Lang). However, given that Bosman calls it a "klugspel" ("a farce") suggests that is was was most probably a version of Edward Poole's text ''[[The Hole in the Wall]]''. |
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Revision as of 05:40, 2 June 2018
The Secret is a comedy in five acts by Edward Morris (1768-1815)[1].
Also found as The Secret!
Contents
The original text
Written and first performed at the Drury Lane theatre in 1799. Published in London by Cadell and Davies, 1799.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1854: Performed by the City Amateur Theatrical Society on Wednesday, 26th July in the Dutch Company's Bree Street Theatre (corner of Dorp Street), Cape Town. It followed Hamlet (Act 3) and A Race for a Dinner (Rodwell), and was itself followed by Ion (Talfourd). Musical accompaniment by Mr Holt's musical corps.
1854: Performed again by the City Amateur Theatrical Society a month later, on Monday 21 August, preceded by The Mendicant (G. à Beckett) and The First Floor (Cobb)
1858: There is a remote possibility that this was the text performed as The Secret of the Hole in the Wall (no author given) at the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, by the Cape Town Dramatic Club on 9 July, 1858, with Plot and Passion, or The Female Gambler (Taylor and Lang). However, given that Bosman calls it a "klugspel" ("a farce") suggests that is was was most probably a version of Edward Poole's text The Hole in the Wall.
Sources
David Erskine Baker, Isaac Reed, Stephen Jones: Biographia Dramatica; or A Companion to the Playhouse. (Volume III – M-Z) London: Longman et al, 1812.[2]
Facsimile version of the original text (third edition, 1799) (Google eBook)[3]
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/morris-edward-1768-1815
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 426-427
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