Amateurs and Actors
Amateurs and Actors is a musical farce by Richard Brinsley Peake. Also known variously as: Amateurs and Actors, or A Peep behind the Curtain, or Amateurs and Actors; or, The Elopement
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The original text
Performed at the at the English Opera House and printed 1818.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1831: Performed on 8 October, as Amateurs and Actors, or A Peep behind the Curtain by All the World's a Stage, as afterpiece to Ambrose Guinett, or A Sea-Side Story (Jerrold).
1832: Performed on 3 March by All the World's a Stage as afterpiece to Othello.
1835: Played as Amateurs and Actors on 3 June by the Garrison Players (the Officers of the 98th Regiment) in the Amateur Theatre, under the shorter title, as afterpiece to The Flying Dutchman, or the Phantom Ship (Fitzball).
1838: Performed as Amateurs and Actors on Monday 9 April, by the Private Amateur Company on , alongside Love in Humble Life (Payne) and The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles (Planché).
Sources
http://www.eighteenthcenturydrama.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/HL_LA_mssLA2042
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Peake
Google Books[1]
The Spectator archives[2]
Bosman, 1928: pp. 207, 217, 220
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