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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 05:57, 2 January 2021
Turned Up is a play by Mark Melford (1850?-1914)[1]
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The original text
In 1886, Melford sold the rights to Turned Up to Willie Edouin for 25 pounds and a royalty of one pound per performance.The play was then performed as far afield as Cape Town and Perth in Western Australia.
Translations and adaptations
The play was filmed as Who's Your Father. Turned Up (original title Too Much Married) was adapted for the cinema and produced as Who’s Your Father in 1935, directed by and starring Lupino Lane
Performance history in South Africa
1886: Performed by Madame Pearmain and her company as part of a short season of eleven plays put in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, from 22 November onwards.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Melford
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.383
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