Poor Soldier

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by John O'Keeffe (1747 – 1833)

A comic opera, first performed at the Covent Garden, London on 4 Nov. 1783.

Performance history in South Africa

Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 6 September, 1802, with Three Weeks after Marriage (Murphy).

Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players in conjunction with Mr Cooke on 16 May 1818, with She Stoops to Conquer, or The Mistakes of a Night (Goldsmith).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O'Keeffe_(Irish_writer)

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/O'Keeffe,_John_(DNB00)

Bosman, 1928: pp. 69,109,

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