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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1860: Performed as ''[[The British Volunteers]]'' by the [[Amateurs of the Band]] on November 26 in the Garrison Theatre of Grahamstown or Keiskama Hoek on the Eastern Cape border. The cast consisted of [[W. Dansie]] (Mr Percival Floff), [[J. M'Kechnie]] (Mr Sydney Jubkins), [[T. Brooker]] (Alfred Charles Mutton, a policeman), [[W. Allan]] (Pad), [[M. Rafferty]] (Mrs Percival Floff), [[J. F. Gay]] (Mrs Sydney Jubkins0, [[J. Durney]] (Mary). Also performed were  ''[[The Review, or The Wags of Windsor]]'' and ''[[The Wandering Minstrel]]''
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1860: Performed as ''[[The British Volunteers]]'' by the [[Amateurs of the Band]] on November 26 in the [[Garrison Theatre]] of Grahamstown or Keiskama Hoek on the Eastern Cape border. The cast consisted of [[W. Dansie]] (Mr Percival Floff), [[J. M'Kechnie]] (Mr Sydney Jubkins), [[T. Brooker]] (Alfred Charles Mutton, a policeman), [[W. Allan]] (Pad), [[M. Rafferty]] (Mrs Percival Floff), [[J. F. Gay]] (Mrs Sydney Jubkins0, [[J. Durney]] (Mary). Also performed were  ''[[The Review, or The Wags of Windsor]]'' and ''[[The Wandering Minstrel]]''
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 04:52, 20 July 2018

The British Volunteers is a farce by an anonymous author.

Apparently also known as The Rino, and How to Use It.

The original text

Little can be found of any play by this name, but according to The Argus, Melbourne, a play referred to as The Rino, and How to Use It, featuring the exact same characters, was performed at , at the Pantheon Theatre, Cremorne Gardens, Melbourne on 16 January, 1860. It had apparently opened at the Haymarket Theatre. London, in 1859 - but under which title is uncertain.

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Performance history in South Africa

1860: Performed as The British Volunteers by the Amateurs of the Band on November 26 in the Garrison Theatre of Grahamstown or Keiskama Hoek on the Eastern Cape border. The cast consisted of W. Dansie (Mr Percival Floff), J. M'Kechnie (Mr Sydney Jubkins), T. Brooker (Alfred Charles Mutton, a policeman), W. Allan (Pad), M. Rafferty (Mrs Percival Floff), J. F. Gay (Mrs Sydney Jubkins0, J. Durney (Mary). Also performed were The Review, or The Wags of Windsor and The Wandering Minstrel

Sources

North Lincoln Sphinx Vol 1, No 4. Christmas, 1860.

Advertisement, The Argus (Melbourne), Wednesday January 18, I860: p. 4.[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

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