The Dancing Barber

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The Dancing Barber is a farce in one act by Charles Selby ()[].

The original text

First performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi in London ... /

Published in Webster's acting national drama, 1838. Illustrated by Pierce Egan the younger.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1858: Performed in the Cape Town Theatre by Sefton Parry and his company on 23 March, with The Lady of Lyons (Bulwer-Lytton) and Macbeth (an "entirely new Extravaganza" by Talfourd).

Sources

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


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