The Fire-eater!
The Fire-eater! is a farce in one act by Charles Selby
Also found as The Fire Eater
Contents
The original text
First performed at
Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1851 as Issue 52 of Lacy's acting edition.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed as The Fire Eater by Juvenile Amateurs in Cape Town on 23 June, 1859, along with The Miller of Whetstone, or The Cross-Bow Letter (Wilks) and William Tell; A Telling Tale of an Old Tell Tale (Rossini/Buckingham).
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 165.
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