H.M.S. Pinafore
(Or The Lass That Loved a Sailor) is a 1878 comic opera in two acts by Gilbert and Sullivan [1].
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society in 1935, 1951 and 1979.
Staged by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society in 1953, 1956, 1966, 1973, 1978, 1984, 1992 and 2009.
Sources
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. 389-390, 410-411,
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