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La Joie Fait Peur ("joy causes fear") is a one act French play in 23 scenes by Mme Émile de Girardin (Delphine de Girardin, 1804-1855)[].
Contents
The original text
First performed in Paris, at the Théâtre-Français on 25 February, 1854, and published by Callmann-Lévy, Paris.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as The Joy that Causes Fear by Tennyson Smith, published and performed in Australia in 1888 by Tessero's French Comedy Company [1]
Adapted into English as a one act play called Night and Morning by Dion Boucault ()[], first performed in Manchester in 1871. The play was also apparently known as Kerry, after the leading character, originally played by Boucicault himself.
Performance history in South Africa
1903: Performed as Kerry by the Edward Terry and his company in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, on 6 April, along with The Passport (Stephenson and Yardley).
Sources
Transcript version of the original French text, Théâtre-documentation.com[2]
Facsimile version of the Callmann-Lévy edition, Gallica[3]
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Boucicault,_Dion_(DNB01)
G.M. Rohrig. 1956. An Analysis of Curtain Acting Editions and Promptbooks of Plays by Dion Boucicault, Unpublished PhD dissertation, The Ohio State University[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Boucicault
Facsimile version of the 1888 Programme and text of The Joy that Causes Fear, Trove[5]
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 1932. (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.414.
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