The Green Bushes, or A Hundred Years Ago
The Green Bushes, or A Hundred Years Ago is a popular melodrama in three acts John Baldwin Buckstone (1802– 1879)[1]
Also known as The Green Bushes, or Ireland a Hundred Years Ago or simply as The Green Bushes
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It opened in the Adelphi Theatre, London on January 27th, 1845, and was considered as one of the highlights of the old Adelphi Theatre repertoire.
Published as The Green Bushes, or A Hundred Years Ago, an original drama in three acts by Samuel French in 1856[2].
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed in Cape Town by the Le Roy and Duret Company on 17 May, as The Green Bushes, or Ireland a Hundred Years Ago with The Actress Of All Work, or My Country Cousin(Buckstone).
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1856 publication, Hathitrust Digital Library[3]
Jacky Bratton. 2011. The Making of the West End Stage: Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870. Cambridge University Press[4]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 79, 87, 91, 97, 100, 111, 180, 201-210, 220-222, 324, 340, 359.
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