Amateurs and Actors

A musical farce by Richard Brinsley Peake. Sometimes given a fuller title: Amateurs and Actors, or A Peep behind the Curtain

Performed at the at the English Opera House and printed 1818.

Performance history in South Africa

Performed under the full title by All the World's a Stage on 8 October, 1831 , as afterpiece to Ambrose Guinett, or A Sea-Side Story (Jerrold).

Performed under the shorter title by the Private Amateur Company on Monday 9 April, 1838, alongside Love in humble Life (Payne) and The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles (Planché).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Peake

Google Books[1]

The Spectator archives[2]

Bosman, 1928: pp. 207,

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