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1861: Performed as ''[[The Cricket on the Hearth]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]] by [[Sefton Parry]] and company, on 3 June. This uncredited text may have been Boucicault's recently written version. | 1861: Performed as ''[[The Cricket on the Hearth]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]] by [[Sefton Parry]] and company, on 3 June. This uncredited text may have been Boucicault's recently written version. | ||
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Revision as of 05:42, 19 May 2019
The Cricket on the Hearth a novella by Charles Dickens (1812–1870)[1], a work often dramatized, in various languages and still performed regularly.
Contents
The original text
The novella was first published by Bradbury and Evans, and released 20 December 1845 (though the title page has 1846) and contained illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer.
Translations and stage adaptations
An immediate success, the work saw no less than seventeen stage productions opening during the Christmas season of 1845. Only one had Dickens's approval and this one opened on the same day as the book's release. Dickens himself read the tale four times in public performance. For a time the novels was more popular as a performed piece than A Christmas Carol.
Dramatized versions seen in South Africa
Dot by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)[2]
An adaptation of the Dickens novella by Dion Boucicault, including a number of Shakespearian characters for example, it was licensed for Ben Webster at the Adelphi on 11 April 1859, but was first produced at the Winter Garden, New York, on September 14th, 1859. The London production only took place on 14 April 1862 in the Adelphi Theatre.
Sometimes found with the title Dot, or The Cricket on the Hearth.
Performance history in South Africa
1861: Performed as The Cricket on the Hearth in the Theatre Royal by Sefton Parry and company, on 3 June. This uncredited text may have been Boucicault's recently written version.
1875: Performed as Dot, or The Cricket on the Hearth (and credited to Boucicault) in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town by Captain Disney Roebuck's company on 9 April, with Aunt Charlotte's Maid (Morton)
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cricket_on_the_Hearth
http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/boucicault/pva231.html
https://www.nextory.se/bok/the-cricket-on-the-hearth-charles-dickens/9789176053881
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 97, 323, 340, 363-4.
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