Exchange No Robbery, or The Diamond Ring
There appear to be two published and performed plays using this title.
In 1820 a play called Exchange No Robbery, or The Diamond Ring by an unknown author was performed at The Theatre Royal, Haymarket and published by Wright in the same year. In another source it is ascribed to Theodore Brinsley Peake, and said to have been first performed 12 Aug 1820.
In 1825 a text entitled Exchange No Robbery, described as a three-act comedy by Theodore Edward Hook (1788-1841), was performed at the Theatres Royal at Covent Garden and at Drury Lane, and published with explanatory notes by John Cumberland in 1825. According to the notes this play's central incident is based on an earlier work called He Would be a Soldier by Frederick Pilon.
The original text
Performances in South Africa
1825: Produced in Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 8 October, 1825, using the title Exchange No Robbery, or The Diamond Ring but ascribed to Hooke. It was accompanied by The Midnight Hour (Dumaniant/Inchbald). The players included Mr Hanson, Mr Troward, Mr Watt, Sgt Corbishley. Mr Rundle, Mr St John, Howell, Master Canterbury, Mrs Black, Mrs Gouland, Mr Mills, Mrs O'Brien.
Sources
Entry on Exchange no Robbery or The Diamond Ring in Google Books[1]
http://www.eighteenthcenturydrama.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/HL_LA_mssLA2165
Facsimile version of the 1825 London edition of the text by John Cumberland, Google E-book[2]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp.188
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