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
8 October, 1831: Performed under the full title by All the World's a Stage, as afterpiece to Ambrose Guinett, or A Sea-Side Story (Jerrold).
3 March, 1832: Repeated by All the World's a Stage as afterpiece to Othello.
28 April, 1835: Played by the Garrison Players (the Officers of the 98th Regiment) in the Amateur Theatre, as afterpiece to The Flying Dutchman, or the Phantom Ship (Fitzball).
Monday 9 April, 1838: Performed under the shorter title by the Private Amateur Company on , alongside Love in humble Life (Payne) and The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles (Planché).
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Peake
Google Books[1]
The Spectator archives[2]
Bosman, 1928: pp. 207, 217, 220
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