The Lying Valet
A comedy in two acts by David Garrick (1727 – 1805). Written in 1761.
Performance history in South Africa
Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 3 June, 1808, with The Old Maid (Murphy) and and occasional comic songs, as a benefit for the Widows and Orphans of the Royal Artillery and Engineers. and an epilogue written an spoken by Captain Collins. Rather uniquely Bosman (1928, p75) however, quotes the names of the plays from the bilingual newspaper The Cape Town gazette and African advertiser = Kaapsche Stads courant en Afrikaansche berigter in Dutch ( as De Oude Meid [sic!], and De Liegende Knegt) - but they were most probably performed in the original English.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp. 75,
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