My Young Wife and my Old Umbrella
A one-act farce by Benjamin Webster.
Adapted from the French play Ma Femme et mon Parapluie, by M. Laurencin (pseud of Paul Aimé Chapelle). First performed in French at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris on 23 June 1834 and published by Marchant (Paris) in the 1835.
The English text first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 23 June 1837, starring the author, and published 1837.
Performance history in South Africa
Performed, (possibly under the title My New Wife and my Old Umbrella, and attributed to R.B. Peake) by the Garrison Players ( a group locally known as Captain Hall's Company) in Cape Town on 8 May 1850, as an afterpiece to Richelieu, or The Conspiracy (Bulwer-Lytton).
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Google Books[1]
Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[2]
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Webster,_Benjamin_Nottingham_(DNB00)
Bosman, 1928: pp 398
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