Love à-la-Mode

Love à-la-Mode is a two-act play by Charles Macklin (1699 - 1797)[1].

The original text

First played at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 12 December 1759, and first published in 1779.

1807: Performed by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 29 August as afterpiece to She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)

1824: Performed by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 10 April as afterpiece to Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz (Hook)

1853: Performed by the Officers of the Garrison in Grahamstown in the Theatre Royal on 11 0ctober, along with something called The Three Clerks (Bosman, 1928: p.507)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 73, 198, 507

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