To Paris and Back for Five Pounds
To Paris and Back for Five Pounds is a play by
Also found as To Paris and Back for £5 or To Paris and Back, for Five Pounds
There is also a version attributed to C.A.F. Wood published in French's American drama. The acting edition, no. 76 and The Minor drama. no. 78 by S. French & son, in 1856[1]
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The original text
First performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London on 5 February, 1853 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed as To Paris and Back for £5 by the Charles Fraser and his company in Cape Town with Ben Bolt (Johnstone) on 3 May.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Morton,_John_Maddison_(DNB00)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 124,
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