Pierrot ou Le diamant perdu
Pierrot ou Le diamant perdu is a French vaudeville in 2 acts by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1772-1827) and Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac (1769-1846)[1]
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris (France) on 11 March, 1813]]. Published by Barba, Paris in 1813.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Dutch by C.A Van Ray[]
South African performances
1834: Performed in Dutch text by Tot Nut en Vermaak in the African Theatre on 2 August, 1834, as an afterpiece to the tragedy Frederik de Groote te Spandau, of Het Lasterschrift (Dorvo)and accompanied by a ballet by C.E. Boniface as interlude.
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 147;
http://data.bnf.fr/39498634/pierrot_ou_le_diamant_perdu_spectacle_1813/
"Théatre de Désaugiers" in the Internet Archive[3]
http://data.bnf.fr/39498634/pierrot_ou_le_diamant_perdu_spectacle_1813/
Facsimile version of the original 1813 French text, Google E-Book[4]
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