A Desperate Game

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A Desperate Game is a comic drama, in one act, by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)[]


The original text

Published in London by T.H. Lacy/Samuel French in 1853(?).

Performance history in South Africa

1864: Performed by the Juvenile Christy's Minstrels in the Mechanic's Institute, Cape Town, in July, with lead played by Master Williams and Miss Lytton.

Sources

The Online Books Page, Online Books by John Maddison Morton[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 268-9

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