His Excellency the Governor
His Excellency the Governor is a play by Robert Marshall (1863-1910)[1]
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Written in Cape Town in 1893, while the author was stationed at the Cape Town Castle as adjutant to Sir William Gordon Cameron. The play was to have been produced in London by George Alexander, but F. Pigott, the then Examiner of Plays, objected to it and so this never occurred. The text was never published.
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Apparently he did no more than write the plays in South Africa, for there is no indication that any of them were actually tried out or produced in South Africa during his sojourn there. Even the two that he wrote while stationed in Cape Town and Pietermaritzburg appear to have been sent to London producers directly for consideration.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Marshall_(dramatist)
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