Les Pattes de Mouche
Les Pattes de Mouche ("the of the fly") is a comedy in three acts by Victorien Sardou (1831-1908)[1]
Contents
The original text
Originally written and performed in 1860.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted into English as A Scrap of Paper, a comedy in three acts by John Palgrave Simpson ()[]
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorien_Sardou
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: pp.203-205
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