The Woman in White

The Woman in White is a famous novel by Wilkie Collins and of plays based on the novel.

Stage adaptations

=The Woman in White by Sutton Vane Sr (1860s)

The White Queen by Boulding/Palgrave(?) (1890s)

Not to be confused with Philippa Gregory's novel or the BBC series based on it.

An historical play set in the time of Louis XII, The White Queen is a dramatization of Wilkie Collins's mystery novel The Woman in White (), and was specifically written for the actress Lillian Bedard, said by her to be by "Palgrave of London" (other sources have is a play J.W. Boulding as the author).

The play was most successfully produced in London by Bedard, who later took it on her many international tours as part of her repertoire.

South African performances of the various versions

1888-9 Performed by Lillian Beddard and her company in South Africa, inter alia at the Theatre Royal, Johannesburg, with Beddard as "Lady Mary".

Performance history in South Africa

1867: Performed (possibly in the Sutton Vane version) on 21 and 24 October and 4 November in Cape Town by the Le Roy and Duret Company.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

http://wilkiecollinssociety.org/newsletter-spring-2010/

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