The Irish Widow

The Irish Widow is a farce in two acts by David Garrick (1717 – 1779)[1]

The original text

The plot in part derived from of Le Mariage Forcé [2] by Molière. The Garrick play first staged at the Drury Lane Theatre on 23 October 1772 and first published in 1772, for T. Becket.

Translations and adaptations

Performances in South Africa

1824: Presented in Cape Town, in South Africa under by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre on 22 May, as afterpiece to The Mountaineers (Colman).

1824: Presented in Cape Town, in South Africa under by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre on 12 June, as afterpiece to Lovers' Vows (Inchbald/Kotzebue)

1838: Performed on 2 April by the 27th Enniskillen Regiment (see Garrison Players) in "The Theatre, New Barracks" (see Barracks Theatre) with The Rivals (Sheridan).