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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
Revision as of 04:37, 7 August 2019
My Uncle's Will is a comedietta, in one act by Spenser Theyre-Smith ()[]
Also found as Uncle's Will
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London in April of 1873. Published in London and New York by Samuel French (1880) and Walter H Baker & Co, 1890.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1884-5: Performed as Uncle's Will by the Henry Harper Company in the new Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as part of Henry Harper's first season as lessee and manager of the venue.
Sources
Ludwig Wilhelm Berthold Binge. 1969. Ontwikkeling van die Afrikaanse toneel (1832-1950). Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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: pp.
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