The Sightless Bride

The Sightless Bride is a play by Henry James Byron (1835-1884)[1].

Also found as Sightless Bride and The Devil of Paris, or The Sightless Bride.

The original text

Described as "a play with music" that "includes an Irish song and jig", it was performed as Sightless Bride at the New Bowery Theatre, New York, 22-23 August, 1864 (no author mentioned). Performed as The Sightless Bride in the Metropolitan Theatre, California, on 2 November, 1870 (again, no author mentioned).

A play called The Devil of Paris, or The Sightless Bride, ascribed variously to J.B. Johnstone (), Surrey and "Anon." is listed in Popular Stage: Theatre in Nineteenth Century England (Series One, Manuscript and Typescript: Parts 1-5: Author Index. Page 30)[]. 1865 But Williams gives original as Surrey 4.3.61. 'N' makes that anonymous. Also a typed copy in quarto and set of parts.The Devil of Paris, or the sightless bride. 1865.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed as The Sightless Bride in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town by Disney Roebuck's company, under the temporary management of C. Wilstone, on 27 July, with The Momentous Question (Fitzball).

Sources

https://www.musicingotham.org/event/52677

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7530, 2 November 1870

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.341, 346

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