The Match Girls
The Match Girls is a play by Robert Mitchell.
Not to be confused with the musical play The Matchgirls by Bill Owen and Tony Russell which premiered in 1966 in London [1].
Contents
The original text
A play about the 1888 strike for union rights by unskilled workers at the Bryant and May factory
The script for The Match Girls by Robert Mitchell is held at V&A Theatre and Performance Collections [2].
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1949: Presented by the University of Cape Town's Speech and Drama Department at the Little Theatre in March, directed by Rosalie van der Gucht.
Sources
Inskip, 1972. p.135.
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