The First Floor
The First Floor is a farce in two acts by James Cobb (1756–1818)[1]
(Not to be confused with the two-act farce Second Floor, Spoopendyke (1892) by Grace Livingston Furniss.)
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 13 January 1787 and printed for C. Dilly in 1787.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1854: Performed as a "comedietta" by the City Amateur Theatrical Society on Monday 21 August in the Dutch Company's Bree Street Theatre (corner of Dorp Street), Cape Town, under the directorship of Mr J. Boxer, with Mr Ashley playing "Furnish". The play followed on The Mendicant (Á Beckett) and was itself followed by The Secret! (Morris).
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cobb_(librettist).
https://archive.org/details/firstfloorafarc00cobbgoog
http://writersinspire.org/content/first-floor-farce-two-acts-it-now-acting-theatre-royal-drury-lane
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.427
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