The Queen of the Abruzzi

The Queen of the Abruzzi is a drama in one act by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[1]

Also found as Queen of the Abruzzi

The original text

Performed in the Adelhi Theatre, London on 8 June, 1846 and published by T.H. Lacy in the same year.

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 21 June. No author given. Is She a Woman? (Anon.) played as afterpiece.

1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 12 July, with The Waterman (Dibdin) as afterpiece and the Sailor's Hornpipe played by Herr Luin.

1866: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 22 September by the Le Roy and Duret Company with Little Sentinel () and Don Juan (described as a "Magnificent Ballet" , it was probably a company version of Gluck and Calzabigi's Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre).

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stirling_Coyne

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.211-214

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82207987/

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press Archive[2]

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