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| − | Described as "a play with music" that "includes an Irish song and jig", it was performed as ''[[Sightless Bride]]'' at the New Bowery Theatre, New York, 22-23 August, 1864 | + | Described as "a play with music" that "includes an Irish song and jig", it was performed as ''[[Sightless Bride]]'' at the New Bowery Theatre, New York, 22-23 August, 1864. Performed in the Metropolitan Theatre, California, on 2 November, 1870. |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 16:02, 26 September 2020
The Sightless Bride is a play by Byron ()[].
Also found as Sightless Bride.
Contents
The original text
Described as "a play with music" that "includes an Irish song and jig", it was performed as Sightless Bride at the New Bowery Theatre, New York, 22-23 August, 1864. Performed in the Metropolitan Theatre, California, on 2 November, 1870.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1876: Performed as The Sightless Bride in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town by Disney Roebuck's company, under the temporary management of C. Wilstone, on 27 July, with The Momentous Question (Fitzball).
Sources
https://www.musicingotham.org/event/52677
Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7530, 2 November 1870
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.341, 346
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