The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)
The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) is a comic work by an unknown author.
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Billed as a "side-splitting entertainment" the wok is ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by F.C.L. Bosman (1980: p. 260). However this is unlikely to be true, since the performance referred to dates from 1867, and Ward was only born in 1883, so it is most probably another, earlier, burlesque-style work by an unknown author.
See also: Le Bal Masqué
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Performance history in South Africa
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press[1]
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