Le Contrôleur des Wagons-lits
Le Contrôleur des Wagons-lits is a French comedy in three acts by by Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson (1848-1912)[1].
Also found as Le Controleur des Wagons-lits and Le Controleur des Wagons-Lits in some sources.
Translated and adapted into English as On and Off by H.B. (Henry Brougham) Farnie (1836-1889)[2]
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The original text
1898: Le Contrôleur des wagons-lits was créée le 11 mars 1898 au Théâtre des Nouveautés, à Paris
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1904: Performed in English as On and Off by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, in April by a company under the management of the Wheeler Brothers, featuring George Giddens.
Sources
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Bisson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brougham_Farnie
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Contr%C3%B4leur_des_wagons-lits_(film,_1913)
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.203-205
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