Family Jars
Family Jars is a musical farce, in one act by Joseph Lunn [1]. Music by Perry.
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The original text
Produced 26 August, 1822 and acted nineteen times. Printed both at New York and in London, in Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays,’ vol. xiv. 1850.
Performance history in South Africa
1855: Performed in Cape Town by Sefton Parry as afterpiece to Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy (Boucicault), with a musical interlude. This was done on Wednesday 13 June, in a Drawing Room Theatre which he had constructed in the Commercial Rooms in Cape Town.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lunn,_Joseph_(DNB00)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 428-9,
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