A Race for a Dinner
A Race for a Dinner, or "No Dinner Yet", A race for a dinner: or, "No dinner yet". is a farce in one act by James Thomas Goodenham Rodwell (in some sources with George Daniel). A translation and adaptation of the French comedy Le Gastronome sans Argent Legastronome sans argent by Scribe and Brulay.
First performed at Covent Garden Theatre in 1828, apparently after Rodwell's death in 1825, and published the same year in London (Thomas Hailes Lacy and/or Samuel French). Performed and published in New York in 1829.
Performance history in South Africa
1833: Performed as A Race for a Dinner by the All the World's a Stage on 21 September, withThe Day After the Wedding, or A Wife’s First Lesson, the comic sketch of The Actress Of All Work (Anon) and the farce Rival Valets (Ebsworth).
1854: Performed as A Race for a Dinner by the City Amateur Theatrical Society on Wednesday, 26th July in the Dutch Company's Bree Street Theatre (corner of Dorp Street), Cape Town. It followed Hamlet (Act 3) and was followed by The Secret (Morris) and Ion (Talfourd).
Translations and adaptations
Sources
https://archive.org/details/racefordinnerfar00rodw
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009564854
Bosman, 1928: pp. 426.
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