Le Mari à la Campagne

Le Mari à la Campagne is a French comedy in three acts by Jean-François Bayard (1796-1853)[1] and Jules de Wailly (1806-1866)[2].

The original text

First performed in Paris at the Comédie-Française on 3 June, 1844, and published in the Magasin Theatral in 1844.

Translations and adaptations

Freely translated into English as The Serious Family, a comedy in three acts, by Morris Barnett (1800-1856)[3]. The source is Referred to wrongly given as Un Mari en Campaigne in the published English text.

First performed in English at The Haymarket Theatre, London, and Burton's Theatre, New York, in 1849. Published in New York by Samuel French in 1850 as No LXXIX of French's Standard Drama.

Performance history in South Africa

1877: Performed as The Serious Family by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 2 August, with Brown and the Brahmins (Reece).

Sources

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AAN3431.0001.001?view=toc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Bayard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_de_Wailly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Barnett

Facsimile version of the French text of 1844, Gallica BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France)[4]

Facsimile version of the Samuel French text, The Internet Archive[5]

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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