Husbands and Wives
Husbands and Wives is a farcical comedy by F.C. Phillips (1849-1921)[1] and Percy Fendall (1850-1917)[].
Also found as Husbands and Wife and Husband and Wife.
Contents
The original text
The play opened at the Criterion Theatre, London, on 27 April, 1891. Later played at the Athenaeum Theatre, London, 7 July to 17 October, 1891, the thrud act apparently considerably rewritten.
A performance of the play opened at the Grand Opera House, London, Ontario, on Monday, 23 January, 1893.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
https://www.geni.com/people/Arthur-Percy-Fendall/6000000033656236290
J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. (Second, revised edition, p. 423). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book:p 79[2]
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.421
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