Le Comte de Comminge, ou Les Amans Malheureux
Le Comte de Comminge, ou Les Amans Malheureux is a verse play in three acts by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard D'Arnaud (1718-1805)[1]
The original text
An adaptation of Mémoires du comte de Comminge by Mme de Tencin, it was published by L'Esclapart (La Haye and et Paris) in 1764.
Performance history in South Africa
1809: Performed in Cape Town on 23 October by a company of local enthusiasts, accompanied by a ballet in two acts, apparently announced as Ulysses op het Eiland van Circé (Calderon?), by a company of young people from the colony, probably adapted by their teacher. The evening's entertainment was presented as a benefit for local Widow in straitened circumstances.
1809: Apparently repeated by the same company, but the accompanying ballet now expanded to three acts, though still with the title Ulysses op het Eiland van Circé, as another benefit for the same Widow.
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1764 edition. Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Thomas-Marie_de_Baculard_d%27Arnaud
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy.[3]: pp. 127
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