Le Marriage de Biribi
Le Marriage de Biribi ("The marriage of Biribi") as a comedy in three acts by Sire Barago.
This according to F.C.L. Bosman (1928: p. 126), who is the only source on the play to be found. He appears to base it on a newspaper advert from the Kaapsche Courant of 21 June, 1809. It was offered there as a work "translated and turned into verse by C.E. Boniface". He actually lists two plays (Eopipore, ou La Resurrection and Le Marriage de Biribi) on page 126, and it COULD also be read that this might have been part of the subtitle of a play entitled Eopipore, ou La Resurrection et Le Marriage de Biribi("Eopipore, or The resurrection" and the marriage of Biribi) - though no such play can be traced either.
In his corrections, Bosman only has the title Eopipore, ou La Resurrection and Le Marriage de Biribi as separate plays, both, or perhaps only the latter, by Barago, and both done in 1809.
See Eopipore, ou La Resurrection
South African performances
1809: The play was apparently performed in French by the French Company led by Charles Mathurin Villet , on 1 July in the African Theatre, Cape Town, with Eopipore, ou La Resurrection (Anon/Barago?) and Oromidas, ou Le Balêt de Balais (Anon).
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 126
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