The Gates of Bondage

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The Gates of Bondage is a play by Maud Williamson ()[]

The original text

A dramatisation of the novel The Deemster by Hal Caine ()[], .

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1907: Performed in Cape Town by the visiting Woods-Williamson Company during the first part of the year, as part of a short season at the Opera House.

Sources

Review of an Australian production of the play by the Woods-Williamson Company in the Theatre Royal, Hobart,Tasmania, on page 2 of The Mercury of July 26, 1900, Trove[1]

Review of an Australian production of the play by the Woods-Williamson Company in the Royal Princess's Theatre Bendigo, Victoria, on page 7 of the Bendigo Advertiser of 17 April, 1911. Trove [2]

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.426-427 Go to ESAT Bibliography

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