The Jew and the Doctor
A farce in two acts by Thomas John Dibdin (1771 – 1841)[1]
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It had been written sometime in 1796-97, but - except for a benefit performance for Dibdin himself in the Maidstone Theatre - was not produced until in the winter of 1798-99 at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and later in the Theatre-Royal, Dublin, and the Boston Theatre.
Published in London in 1800 and again in 1807.
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Performance history in South Africa
1812: Performed in Cape Town on 12 July by the Garrison Players) in the The African Theatre, with A Cure for the Heart Ache (Morton). Lt Prescott and Lt Hanson are listed as Directors for the evening.
1826: Presented in Cape Town on 6 May by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to Lovers' Vows (Von Kotzebue/Inchbald).
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_John_Dibdin
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dibdin,_Thomas_John_(DNB00)
https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/784973
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 143,
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