Mr Popple
Mr Popple is a play with music by Paul Rubens ()[].
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The original text
First performed at the Avenue Theatre, London, on 21 February, 1905 and published by Samuel French, Ltd. London and New York (copyright 1908).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1906: Performed under the auspices of the Wheeler Brothers in the Opera House, Cape Town, opening on 18 June, with a cast that included Myles Clifton (in the leading role of "Freddy Popple"), Victor Gouriet, [Maud Thorne]], Sybil Thorne and Daisie Wallace.
Sources
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.425-6
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