Blue Devils
Blue Devils is a farce, in one act by George Colman the Younger.
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The original text
Translated and adapted from the French play L'Anglais, ou Le Fou Raisonnable by Joseph Patrat (1733-1801), it was first performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, London on the 24th of April, 1798. Printed by W. Burton for J. Cawthorn and J. Cawthorn, 1808.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1823: Listed as performed under the title The Blue Devils by Bosman (1928, p.197) on 26 July 1823 in the African Theatre by the English Theatricals company, as an afterpiece to The Honey Moon (Tobin).
1831: Performed on 12 November, by All the World's a Stage in the African Theatre, as an between The Innkeeper of Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber (Fitzball) and The Two Galley Slaves (Payne).
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Sources
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001023501
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[1]: pp. 197, 218
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