The Four Sisters

The Four Sisters is an original farce in one act by William Bayle Bernard (1807-1875)[1]

Also found as The Four Sisters, or Woman's Worth and Women's Wrongs.

The original text

First performed on May 3, 1832 in The Strand Theatre, London, and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.

Performance history in South Africa

1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Sefton Parry and company on 2 April, as part of a benefit for Samuel Wolfe. Though correctly ascribed to Shirley, amusingly the title is wrongly given (by the company or by Bosman, 1980) as The Creole, or Love Letters. The accompanying farce also appears to have been wrongly titled as The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs. (Bosman 1980, suggests that this was probably a version of The Goose with the Golden Eggs by Mayhew and Edwards.)

1866: Performed as The Four Sisters, or Woman's Worth and Women's Wrongs in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by the Le Roy-Duret Company on 22 March, with The Creole (Bernard).

Sources

Facsimile version of the Lacy edition of 1832, The Internet Archive[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bayle_Bernard

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.111, 203, 208, 210.

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