X.Y.Z.

X.Y.Z. is a farce by George Colman the Younger (1762 – 1836)[1].

Performance history in South Africa

1825: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 27 August, 1825, as afterpiece to Charles the Second, or The Merry Monarch (Payne).

1825: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 5 November, 1825, as afterpiece to The Review, or The Wags of Windsor (Colman Jr), as a benefit for J. Corbishley and Mrs Black.

Translations and adaptations

Produced in Afrikaans by the René de la Harpe Geselskap ("the René de la Harpe Company") in the 1930s. Earlier it had apparently been produced under the title by Op die Weegskaal ("On the Scale ") by the same company.

Sources

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

Bosman, 1928: p 187,

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