Easy Shaving
Easy Shaving is a farce in one act by F.C. Burnand (1836-1917)[] and Montagu Williams (1835-1892)[].
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The original text
First performed in London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on June 11, 1863 and published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Easy Shaving by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town (and probably on tour in the Eastern Province), as afterpiece to The Flowers of the Forest (Buckstone).
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.211.
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