Cousin Kate

Cousin Kate is a four-act farce by Bronson Howard (1842-1908)[1]

Also known as One of Our Girls

The original text

Originally written and performed as One of Our Girls at the Lyceum Theatre, London on 10 November, 1885, later performed as Cousin Kate in Newcastle on 26 August, 1889. Published as One of Our Girls in The Banker's Daughter and Other Plays, 1887.

Not to be confused with Howard's last play, Kate, a "Comedy in Four Acts", published by Harper and Brothers in 1906.

Translations and adaptations

Filmed and released in 1914 as One of Our Girls by Famous Players Film Company, directed by Thomas N. Heffron with a script Eve Unsell (based on the play).

Performance history in South Africa

1904: Performed as Cousin Kate in the Opera House, Cape Town, by the James Welch company,

1919: Performed as Cousin Kate by a touring company, with a cast that included Hilda Attenboro,

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronson_Howard

Facsimile version of the published text of One of Our Girls, HathiTrust Digital Library[2]

Lewis Leary. 1980. American Literature to 1900, Macmillan International Higher Education: p.181 [3]

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 417

Rand Daily Mail, 10 June 1919

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