A Day after the Fair
A farce or burletta by Charles A. Somerset. The earlier printed versions of the play (e.g. Elton) describe it as "A Burletta, in One Act", while later versions (Cumberland and Davidson) refer to it as "a farce in two acts".
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The original text(s)
Some uncertainty also exists about the first performance, but it was apparently done at the Surrey theatre, London, in 1827, the Bowery Theatre in 1828 and at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in 1829 (possibly the first performance of the two act version).
Printed inter alia by Elton's Dramatic Repository, 1828, by John Cumberland in London, 1829 and by G H. Davidson, 1830, all of them claiming to be from the acting copy, the latter two also containing "remarks biographical and critical by D-G" (George Daniel) .
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1834: Performed in the "Amateur Theatre", Cape Town by the Private Amateur Company on 5 November 1834. As an afterpiece to Guy Faux, or the Gunpowder Treason Conspiracy (Marfarren).
Sources
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL17221458M/A_day_after_the_fair
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: p 206.
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