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[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) | [[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|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. | + | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.69, 98, 230-6, 311-3, 322m 327, 330, 360-1, 368 |
Revision as of 04:26, 25 July 2020
The Loan of a Lover is a vaudeville in one act by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)
Contents
The original text
Originally performed at the Olympic Theatre, London in and then at the Park Theatre, New York. Published in 1847 by W. Taylor & co., New York, as No IV in The Minor Drama series.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1861: First performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 8 July, as an afterpiece to Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne (Pocock).
1861: Performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 15 July, as afterpiece to Little Bo-Peep, or Harlequin and the Little Girl who Lost her Sheep
1874: Performed on 23 and 26 January in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town by the Disney Roebuck company, with Lady Audley's Secret (Hazlewood).
1874: Performed in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 21 February by Disney Roebuck and his company, with Caste (Robertson).
1875: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, on 24 March, with East Lynne (Wood).
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1847 edition by Taylor and Co., The Internet Archive[1]
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.69, 98, 230-6, 311-3, 322m 327, 330, 360-1, 368
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