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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| − | 23 June 1831: Performed in Cape Town by [[All the World's a Stage]] in the [[African Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]], with ''[[Richard III|Richard the Third, or The Battle of Bosworth's Field]]'' (Shakespeare). | + | 23 June 1831: Performed in Cape Town by [[All the World's a Stage]] in the [[African Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]] as ''[[The Children of the Wood]]'', with ''[[Richard III|Richard the Third, or The Battle of Bosworth's Field]]'' (Shakespeare). |
| − | 1837: Brought to in Cape Town as a part of a puppet show put on by the so-called "[[Automata]]" or "[[Automaton]] Figures", large mechanical puppets, by [[W.F.H. Parker]] in 1837. It was performed along with ''[[Polander]]'', the dramatic play ''[[The Enchanted Turk]]'' and ''[[Joey Grimaldi's Trip to Brentford]]''. | + | 1837: Brought to in Cape Town as a part of a puppet show put on by the so-called "[[Automata]]" or "[[Automaton]] Figures", large mechanical puppets, by [[W.F.H. Parker]] in 1837. It was performed (under its correct title of [[Children in the Wood]]), along with ''[[Polander]]'', the dramatic play ''[[The Enchanted Turk]]'' and ''[[Joey Grimaldi's Trip to Brentford]]''. |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 05:21, 19 May 2015
A play by Thomas Morton. A two-act musical entertainment. (Wrongly listed by F.C.L. Bosman as "The Children of the Wood" in his 1928 history of, South African theatre.)
First performed at the Haymarket 1 October 1793. A pirated edition published in Dublin, 1794. Printed for John Rice
Performance history in South Africa
23 June 1831: Performed in Cape Town by All the World's a Stage in the Cape Town Theatre as The Children of the Wood, with Richard the Third, or The Battle of Bosworth's Field (Shakespeare).
1837: Brought to in Cape Town as a part of a puppet show put on by the so-called "Automata" or "Automaton Figures", large mechanical puppets, by W.F.H. Parker in 1837. It was performed (under its correct title of Children in the Wood), along with Polander, the dramatic play The Enchanted Turk and Joey Grimaldi's Trip to Brentford.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton_(playwright)
Bosman, 1928: p. 216, 231
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