Confusion

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Confusion is a dramatic sketch by Francis W. Moore.

The original text

Described by D.C. Boonzaier (1923) as a "perfectly constructed and intensely amusing farcical comedy" in his reminiscences of the 1897 production in Cape Town.

Little information is available about either the author or the play, but a collection, Original Plays and Duologues: Chiefly Humorous by Francis W. Moore was published by Dean and Son, Limited, London in 1898 [1], and reprinted in 2011 by Amazon[2]

The only reference to a recorded American performance found on the internet was the one in 1904 in the Lakewood Theater, Lakewood, Maine.[3]

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1887 Part of the repertoire of the Wheeler Theatre Company when they performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town during April and May. Generally well received, it featured the actor E.A. Elton in one of the leads.


Sources

https://www.lakewoodtheater.org/past-productions

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

https://www.amazon.in/Books-Francis-W-Moore/s?rh=n%3A976389031%2Cp_27%3AFrancis+W.+Moore

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.384.


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