Husbands and Wives

Husbands and Wives is a farcical comedy by F.C. Phillips (1849-1921)[1] and Percy Fendall (1850-1917)[].

Also found as Husbands and Wife and Husband and Wife.

The original text

The play opened at the Criterion Theatre, London, in April, 1891. Later played at the Athenaeum Theatre, London, 7 July to 17 October, 1891.

A performance of the play opened at the Grand Opera House, London, Ontario, on Monday, 23 January, 1893.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

https://www.worldcat.org/title/grand-opera-house-london-ont-monday-jan-23rd-1893-programme-first-production-here-husband-and-wife-a-new-and-farcical-comedy-in-three-acts-by-fc-philips-and-percy-fendall/oclc/890717310

https://www.geni.com/people/Arthur-Percy-Fendall/6000000033656236290

J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. (Second, revised edition, p. 423). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book:p 79[2]

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: p.421

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