A Message from Mars
A Message from Mars is a play by Richard Ganthony ()[].
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The original text
It was first performed at London's Avenue Theatre in November 1899 and had a very successful run of more than 500 performances in London. The manuscript was sold to actor Charles Hawtrey, who reworked the text with his brother George Hawtrey, and then took it to New York's Garrick Theatre and Hawtrey's theater company took the play on tour throughout the United States between 1903 and 1905.
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Message_from_Mars_(play)
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.203-205
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