Une Existence Décolorée

Une Existence Décolorée is a French one-act "comédie-vaudeville" by M.A. Lefranc ()[].

The original text

First performed at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris, on 7 November, 1847 and published by Beck, Paris, in 1847.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into English from the French as A Blighted Being is a farce in one act by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[1]. The play was first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, on 16 November, 1854. Published by T.H. Lacy, 1854 and as Issue 244 of French's minor drama.

Performance history in South Africa

1858: Performed in English as A Blighted Being by the Charles Fraser and a company of amateurs in the Cape Town Theatre on 27 December, with The Irish Tutor () and The Spectre Bridegroom ().

1860: Performed in English as A Blighted Being by the Sefton Parry company in the Cape Town Theatre on 3 January, with The Babes in the Wood, or Harlequin and the Cruel Uncle! (Taylor).

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1847 French edition by Beck, Google E-book[2]

Facsimile version of the 1854 English edition by Lacy, The Internet Archive[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/A_Blighted_Being.html?id=40DQswEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

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