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It appears to have been first performed by Matthews at the , London, in 1856.
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It appears to have been first performed by Matthews at the , London, in 1856.
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Published in New York by Dick & Fitzgerald, as a comedy in three acts.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:21, 9 October 2020

My Awful Dad is a comedy in two acts by Charles Matthews (Charles James Matthews, 1803–1878)[1].

The original text

It appears to have been first performed by Matthews at the , London, in 1856.

Published in New York by Dick & Fitzgerald, as a comedy in three acts.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1885: Performed by the Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, opening on March 19th. The cast also included H.C. Sidney, H. Harries, Constance Young, Alice Norton, and others.

Sources

http://bulkimport.lyrtech.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/5668

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mathews,_Charles_James_(DNB00)

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.356, 380

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