The Rival Valets
The Rival Valets is a farce in two acts by Joseph Ebsworth (1788–1868)[1].
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The original text
First Performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1825, and published by Thomas Dolby, London, in 1825.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1823: Performed as The Day After The Wedding in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 27 September, as afterpiece to Folly As It Flies (Reynolds).
1833: Performed as Rival Valets , in Cape Town by the All the World's a Stage on 21 September, with The Day After the Wedding, or A Wife’s First Lesson (Mrs Kemble), the interlude A Race for Dinner (Rodwell), and the comic sketch of The Actress Of All Work (by Oxberry, though the author is said to be unknown in the source).
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ebsworth
Facsimile version of the first edition of 1825, The Internet Arhive (Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive )[2]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: p. 227
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