The Four Sisters

The Four Sisters is an original farce in one act by William Bayle Bernard (1807-1875)[1]

Also found as The Four Sisters, or Woman's Worth and Women's Wrongs and, rather amazingly, as The Four Sailors, or Woman's Worth and Women's Wrongs.

The original text

First performed as The Four Sisters on May 3, 1832 in The Strand Theatre, London, and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as The Four Sisters, or Woman's Worth and Women's Wrongs in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by the Le Roy-Duret Company on 22 March, with The Creole (Brooks). Madame Duret played the lead, using her outstanding skill for transformation to perform all four the sisters apparently.

1866: Performed as The Four Sisters in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by the Le Roy-Duret Company on 30 July, with The Roll of the Drum (Wilks).

Sources

Facsimile version of the Lacy edition of 1832, The Internet Archive[2]

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

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 203, 209, 211, 227, 230.

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