Who's Who?, or The Double Imposture
Who's Who?, or The Double Imposture is a farce in two acts by John Poole (1786-1872)[1]
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1815. Published by Whittingham and Arliss, London, in the same year. A second edition published in 1816.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1871: Performed as Who's Who by a regimental "Dramatic Club" (the sources are unclear about the precise name of the company, it was possibly an outflow of - or a company founded in affiliation with - the Cape Town Institute and Club's dramatic company) in the Theatre Royal, Main Barracks, Cape Town, on 6 May, with Slasher and Crasher (Morton) and Sarah's Young Man (Suter).
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1816 edition (2nd edition) of the text, Google E-Book[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poole_(playwright)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 267
William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.
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