The Dancing Barber

The Dancing Barber is a farce in one act by Charles Selby (1802?-1863)[].

The original text

First performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi in London on January the 8th, 1838.

Published in London in 1838, inter alia by the National Acting Drama Office, J. Dicks, Chapman and Hall, and in Webster's acting national drama, No. 33.

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

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22505322?q&versionId=27237518

All editions for The Dancing Barber (1800-1865), WorldCat[1]

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

William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.

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