Betsy Baker!, or Too Attentive by Half
Betsy Baker!, or Too Attentive by Half is a farce in one act by John Maddison Morton (1812-1854)[1][2].
Also found as Betsy Baker, or Too Attentive by Half or simply as Betsy Baker
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The original text
First performed at the Royal Princess's Theatre, London in 1850 and published by Duncombe and Company, London and Samuel French.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed on 1 February Cape Town Dramatic Club, in the Cape Town Theatre, featuring miss Annie Rowlands as Betsy, with Poor Pillycoddy (Morton)
1861: Performed as Betsy Baker, or Too Attentive by Half by the company of Sefton Parry in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 5 September, with The Stranger (Kotzebue/Thompson/Sheridan).
1865: Performed as Betsy Baker by the Valorous Amateurs (amateur players from H.M.S. Valorous) in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town on 17 November, with Michael Erle, the Maniac Lover (Wilks) and Ben Bolt (Johnstone).
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton
Facsimile version of the 1850 Duncombe publication, Hathi Trust Digital Library[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 99, 168, 170, 221, 262, 270,325, 342, 362
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