The Agreeable Surprise
The Agreeable Surprise is a comic opera by John O'Keeffe (1747 – 1833), with music by Dr. Arnold. Also spelled 'The Agreable Surprise'
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The original text
First performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London on 3 Sept. 1781, and printed in Cumberland's 'British Theatre,' No. 232)
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1802: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 31 March, 1802, with The Prisoner at Large (O'Keeffe).
1808: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 21 May, 1808, with The West Indian (Cumberland).
1808: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 16 July, 1808, with a farce billed as The Tars of Old England, probably referring to The Reprisal, or The Tars of Old England(Smollett).
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O'Keeffe_(Irish_writer)
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/O'Keeffe,_John_(DNB00)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 68,75, 76
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