Buried Alive, or The Visit to Japan
Buried Alive, or The Visit to Japan is a melodrama, adapted from an unnamed French comedy by H. M'Pherson.
Sometimes simply referred to as Buried Alive, a title found for a number of works.
There is also a text sometimes referred to as The Illustrious Stranger, Or Married and Buried: An Operatic Farce, in Two Acts, as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Contents
The original text
The English version was first performed in English in Newcastle-on-Tyne Amphitheatre, May 1 1799(??)
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1855: Performed in Cape Town on Thursday 26 July by Sefton Parry as part of his farewell performance, alongside A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock (Brough) and The Lottery Ticket (Beazley).
Sources
"The Stage" cyclopaedia, a bibliography of plays, compiled by Reginald Clarence[1].
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 433
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