The Thimble Dig, or The Artful Dodge

The Thimble Rig! is a farce in one act John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[].

The original text

First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London and printed .

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.nypl.org/research/collections/shared-collection-catalog/bib/b14126357

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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