Fish Out of Water, or Cookery and Clerkship
Fish Out of Water, or Cookery and Clerkship is a farce in one act by Joseph Lunn ()[].
Also found as Fish out of Water
Not to be confused with Fish out of Water a full-length farce by Derek Benfield ()[1], or A Fish out of Water a "An existential play" in one act by Thomas Gray ()[]
Contents
The original text
First performed 1824
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed as Fish out of Water 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), Make your Wills (Mayhew and Smith) and The Thumping Legacy (Morton)
Sources
https://www.umass.edu/AdelphiTheatreCalendar/auth.htm#let06l
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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