Make your Wills

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Make your Wills is farce by Mayhew and Smith

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Performance history in South Africa

1842: Performed in Cape Town on 9 June in the Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Players alongside Love, Law and Physic (Kenney) and Love in Humble Life (Payne).

1859: Performed in Simon's Town by the amateurs of "the Royal Naval Theatre of the H.M.S. Megaera" in the Simon's Town Theatre on 28 March, along with a scene from Macbeth (performed "in character" by Captain Nightingale), Fish out of Water (Lunn) and The Thumping Legacy (Morton)

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.165

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