The Robber's Family
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Besides the reference in Bosman (1980: p. 222) there is no further information at present about a play by this name, though it is quite possibly a version of Pocock's melodrama The Robber's Bride (also found as The Robber's Wife, and on occasion billed as being "taken from "The Coiners" from Tales of the O'Hara Family"[1].
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Performance history in South Africa
1867: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 29 April by the Le Roy's Original Company , along with Aladdin, or The Wonderful Scamp (Byron) and The Fantoccini Family (Ray). The evening was also offered as a benefit for Alfred Ray and was under the patronage of The Cape Voluntary Organisation.
Sources
"Fantoccini" in the Unima website The World Encyclopaedia of Puppetry[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.222
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