Love à-la-Mode

A two-act play by Charles Macklin (1699 - 1797).

First played at Drury Lane on 12 December 1759, and first published in 1779.

Performance history in South Africa

Performed by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 29 August, 1807 as afterpiece to She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)

Performed by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 10 April 1824 as afterpiece to Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz (Hook)

Performed by the Officers of the Garrison in Grahamstown in the Theatre Royal on 11 0ctober 1853, along with something called The Three Clerks (Bosman, 1928: p.507)

Sources

http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/prescrip/18thcComedy/plays/70_mack_love.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Macklin

Bosman, 1928: pp.198

Go to ESAT Bibliography

Return to

Return to L in Plays II Foreign Plays

Return to South_African_Theatre/Plays

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page