Pierrot ou Le diamant perdu

Pierrot ou Le diamant perdu is a French vaudeville in 2 acts by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1772-1827) and Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac (1769-1846)[1]

The original text

First performed at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris (France) on 11 March, 1813]]. Published by Barba, Paris in 1813.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as Meester Vink, of De Vermiste Diamant by C.A Van Ray[]

South African performances

1834: Performed in Dutch text by Tot Nut en Vermaak in the African Theatre on 2 August, 1834, as an afterpiece to the tragedy Frederik de Groote te Spandau, of Het Lasterschrift (Dorvo)and accompanied by a ballet by C.E. Boniface as interlude.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 147;

http://data.bnf.fr/39498634/pierrot_ou_le_diamant_perdu_spectacle_1813/

"Théatre de Désaugiers" in the Internet Archive[3]

http://data.bnf.fr/39498634/pierrot_ou_le_diamant_perdu_spectacle_1813/

Facsimile version of the original 1813 French text, Google E-Book[4]

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