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The work was adapted for the stage almost immediately after publication and numerous times afterwards. The texts are often only marginally based on the novel, and the authors of the adaptations are not always credited (the play in some instances even credited to Scott alone). | The work was adapted for the stage almost immediately after publication and numerous times afterwards. The texts are often only marginally based on the novel, and the authors of the adaptations are not always credited (the play in some instances even credited to Scott alone). | ||
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==''[[Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne!]]'' by Isaac Pocock == | ==''[[Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne!]]'' by Isaac Pocock == | ||
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Rob Roy can refer to (1) the popular novel by Sir Walter Scott(1771-1832)[1], published in 1817, (2) to his central character, Robert Roy Campbell MacGregor (1671-1734)[2], the brigand turned hero, who became known as "Rob Roy", and to a number of stage and film dramatizations of the novel from 1818 onwards.
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Dramatizations of Rob Roy
The work was adapted for the stage almost immediately after publication and numerous times afterwards. The texts are often only marginally based on the novel, and the authors of the adaptations are not always credited (the play in some instances even credited to Scott alone).
The entries below concern stage versions known to have been performed in South Africa.
Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne! by Isaac Pocock
The original text
Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne! by Isaac Pocock (1782–1835)[3], with music by John Davy (1763-1824)[4].
Translations and adaptations
Rob Roy MacGregor by William Henry Murray
The original text
Rob Roy MacGregor by William Henry Murray[5]
Translations and adaptations
Rob Roy, The Gregarach by George Soane
The original text
Rob Roy, The Gregarach by George Soane[6]
Translations and adaptations
Performance history of all versions of the tale in South Africa
Below is a list of performances of ALL known versions of Rob Roy in South Africa
1823-24: A play called Rob Roy MacGregor Campbell, or simply referred to a Rob Roy, said to be based on Scott's novel (or credited to Scott himself), was performed a number of times in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the amateur company English Theatricals in these years. It is most likely that this was the widely known and published Pocock musical version of 1818, but it may have been the William Henry Murray version, entitled Rob Roy Macgregor, which had been devised in association with Scott and was performed in Edinburgh in 1818. It was certainly not the Soane version, which was a straight play, for the adverts make reference to a "melodramatic opera", with "original Overture and Music".
1823: Performed as Rob Roy MacGregor Campbell "with the original Overture and Music, new Scenery, Dresses, etc." on 15 November, in the African Theatre, Cape Town, with as afterpiece The Mock Doctor (Fielding).
1823: Performed again by the company English Theatricals as Rob Roy MacGregor Campbell on 20 December, this time with All the World's a Stage (Jackman) as afterpiece.
1824: Performed as Rob Roy MacGregor Campbell, now called a "melodramatic opera", in the African Theatre, Cape Town, by the English Theatricals on 11 August, with The Weather-Cock (Forrest).
1866: Three performances (on 27 and 30 August, 1 September) of Rob Roy by the Le Roy and Duret Company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, , with Bachelor's Buttons (Stirling) as afterpiece.
1875: Performed in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 2 June, with The Happy Pair (Smith).
Sources
Facsimile version of the London published text of 1818, Google eBook[7]
Facsimile version of the New York published text of 1818, Google eBook[8]
Frederick Burwick. Playing to the Crowd: London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830:pp. 120-124 (Palgrave Macmillan, 08 Nov 2011)[9]
http://hal_macgregor.tripod.com/gregor/tree.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soane
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Murray,_William_Henry_(DNB00)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Murray
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [10]: pp. 197-199.
Jill Fletcher. 1994. The Story of Theatre in South Africa: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930. Cape Town: Vlaeberg: p. 40
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