Japie's Courtship
Japie's Courtship is a one act play by an author with the nom-de-plume of "Mowbray-Kloof".
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The original text
The pseudonym, a combination of the names of two well-known Cape Town suburbs, suggests a local author, According to the critic D.C. Boonzaier (1923), this was "a weak and attenuated variation of Mr Black's Love and the Hyphen".
Though Boonzaier's comments seem to refer to a full-length play, the suggestion that it was a one-act play comes from the theatre historian S.P. Gosher (1988), who does not mention the author.
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Performance history in South Africa
1911: Produced in the Opera House, Cape Town, by an unnamed company, failing deservedly in the view of Boonzaier.
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: p.435
S.P. Gosher. 1988. A historical and critical survey of the South African one-act play written in English. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Pretoria: University of South Africa.
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