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==The original text==
 
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First performed in the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on 4 December 1844.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:33, 25 September 2020

Somebody Else is a comedy by James Robinson Planché (1796–1880)[1].

The original text

First performed in the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on 4 December 1844.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1868: Performed by Le Roy and Duret in the Commercial Exchange, Cape Town, on 28 February with An Object of Interest (Stocqueler) and a "Musical Melange", as a "Grand Treat of Country Visitors to Agricultural Show".

1868: The plays possibly repeated by Le Roy and Duret in the Commercial Exchange, Cape Town, on 2 March, as a part of a range of attractions on offer for the "Agricultural Show".

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: pp.232

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