Love Laughs at Locksmiths
Love Laughs at Locksmiths is a comic opera in two acts by George Colman the Younger (1762-1836)[1].
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The original text
First performed in London in July 1803 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with an overture and music composed and selected by Michael Kelly. Text printed by T. Woodroof, 1803.
Performance history in South Africa
1827: Performed in Cape Town in May by the Garrison Amateur Company in the South African Theatre (African Theatre), billed as a "musical farce" and offered with Speed the Plough (Thomas Morton).
Translations and adaptations
Sources
William J. Burling. 2000. Summer Theatre in London, 1661-1820, and the Rise of the Haymarket Theatre. Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityPress: p.224[2]
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/8402856
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Colman_the_Younger
Bosman, 1928: pp.191
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