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Set in the fictitious European country of "Savonia", it is an action packed play that tells of the love of "Paul Valmar" and "Princess Astrea". | Set in the fictitious European country of "Savonia", it is an action packed play that tells of the love of "Paul Valmar" and "Princess Astrea". | ||
| − | The play was first performed in Australia in 1906 and was enormously popular. | + | It opened in England at the Junction Theatre, Manchester, on 30 October, 1905, The play was first performed in Australia in 1906 and was enormously popular. |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 06:09, 14 September 2020
The Midnight Wedding is a play by Walter Howard
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Set in the fictitious European country of "Savonia", it is an action packed play that tells of the love of "Paul Valmar" and "Princess Astrea".
It opened in England at the Junction Theatre, Manchester, on 30 October, 1905, The play was first performed in Australia in 1906 and was enormously popular.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted as an silent film in 1912 by the Australian company Spencer's Pictures, directed by Raymond Longford [1] and again in 1914 by the British & Colonial Kinematograph Company, directed by Ernest G. Batley[2]
Performance history in South Africa
1911: Performed in February by the Alfred Paumier and his company in the Cape Town Opera House, with Paumier as "Paul Valmar". (Bosman lists the author as "W. Howards")
Sources
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.435
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