Lost in London
Lost in London is a romantic drama in three acts by Watts Phillips (1825-1874)[1].
Contents
The original text
Opened at the New Adelphi Theatre, London on 16 March, 1867, produced by Ben Webster.
Published in London by L.C. Lacy in 1867, also by Samuel French in the 1870s.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1876: Performed as Nobody's Child in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, by the Disney Roebuck company on 10 August, with The Boots at the Swan (Selby).
Sources
Facsimile version of the original Samuel French text: The Internet Archive[2]
Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 5, Part 2. Cambridge University Press: p. 523[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Phillips
D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.
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