Dot
Dot is a Drama in three acts by Dion Boucicault.
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The original text
An adaptation of The Cricket and the Hearth by Charles Dickens, it was licensed for Ben Webster at the Adelphi on 11 April 1859, but was first produced at the Winter Garden, New York, on September 14th, 1859. The London production only took place on 14 April 1862 in the Adelphi Theatre.
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Performance history in South Africa
1875: Performed in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town by Captain Disney Roebuck's company on 9 April, with Aunt Charlotte's Maid (Morton).
Sources
http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/boucicault/pva231.html
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 323, 340, 363-4.
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