The Miller and his Men

A popular English romantic melodrama , in two acts by Isaac Pocock (also printed J.Pocock on some editions and by Bosman (1928). With music by Henry R. Bishop, it was printed in London in 1813, later printed in New York by David Longworth, 1818. It was still playing in London in 1835, and there are records of regular performances by the Garrison theatre companies in Canada and South Africa.

Performance history in South Africa

1818: Performed in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs and Mr Cooke and his company, on 5 September 1818, as afterpiece to The Birth Day (O'Keefe), and again on 26 September (as afterpiece to Pixerecourt's The Wandering Boys)

1826: Performed on the January 1826 in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs, as afterpiece to The Irish Tutor (Glengall).

1836: Performed on 3 August 1836 in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs, as afterpiece to She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith), and repeated on 23 September 1836 as afterpiece to The Poor Gentleman.

1843: According to William Groom (1899: p 518) a performance of the play was offered by an unnamed English company in the Roeland Street Theatre some time in 1843. It was followed by a farce.