Friendship
Friendship is a the name of two plays,
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Friendship, a melodrama by an anonymous author
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: A selection from a melodrama entitled Friendship was performed in the Cape Town Theatre on 2 June by E.C. de Jocelyn Harvey, as part of an evening of "Tragedy, Melodrama and Light Comedy". Harvey himself played a young consumptive who has a last moment of joy when his friend returns in time for him to die in his arms. Other pieces done were the closet scene from Hamlet (Shakespeare), Town & Country, or Which is Best (Morton) and an Extravaganza Macbeth (Talfourd).
Friendship , a play in three acts by George M. Cohan
The original text
First performed at the Fulton Theatre, New York, on 31 August, 1931, running into September 1931.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Facsimile version of Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series (Published 1959), Google E-book[1]
https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/friendship-11401
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
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