The Toothaches
The Toothaches is a farce by an anonymous author apparently performed in Cape Town in October of 1872.
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Nothing has yet been found of a play by this name, but - unless it was a Christy-style skit devised by the performers - was possibly be a version of (or reference to) any one of the following one-act farces:
The Tooth-ache, or, Mistakes of a Morning ("a petit comedy, in one act") by John Bray (Published by M.Carey, Philadelphia, 1814) Described as "a petit comedy, in one act : a free translation from the French". Also known simply as either Mistakes of a Morning or Toothache
Tooth-ache, or The Prince and the Chimney-sweeper (Anon., 1850)
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Performance history in South Africa
1872: A play called The Toothaches (no author named) was performed in Cape Town during October by an unnamed (garrison?) company, as part of an evening of musical and dramatic entertainment in aid of a new bell for St Mary's Cathedral. Probably taking place in the Catholic Hall (formerly known as the St Aloysius Hall), the programme for the evening also included The Happy Man (Lover) and The Nervous Cures (Brown and Norton).
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: pp.203-205
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Arthur E. McGuinness. 1975. George Fitzmaurice. Bucknell University Press[1]
