A Cup of Tea

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A Cup of Tea is a comedietta in one act by

The original text

First performed at Royal Princess's Theatre, London, in February, 1869, and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1877: Performed as part of a "Grand Military Night" in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and his company on 3 October, along with Our Wife, or The Rose of Amiens (Morton). The band of the Connaught Rangers also participated.

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1869 Lacy text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 361


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