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, under the shorter title, 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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