The Gipsy Revellers
The Gipsy Revellers is a play by
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The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1890: Presented by the The Wheeler Company in the Vaudeville Theatre, Cape Town, toward the end of the year. The production is remembered by the Cape Town critic D.C. Boonzaier as "gigantic failure" (cited in Bosman, 1980: p.391).
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 1932. (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.391
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