The First Floor

A farce in two acts by James Cobb (1756–1818)

First performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 13 January 1787 and printed for C. Dilly in 1787.

Performance history in South Africa

1854: Performed by the City Amateur Theatrical Society on Monday 21 August in the Dutch Company's Bree Street Theatre (corner of Dorp Street), Cape Town, following on The Mendicant (Á Beckett) and followed by The Secret! (Morris).

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cobb_(librettist).

https://archive.org/details/firstfloorafarc00cobbgoog

http://writersinspire.org/content/first-floor-farce-two-acts-it-now-acting-theatre-royal-drury-lane

Bosman, 1928: pp.427

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