Our Old House at Home! or Worth not Wealth
Our Old House at Home is a domestic drama in two acts by Thomas G. Blake ()[].
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The original text
First produced at the Bedford Theatre, London, in 1841.
Also published as Our Old House at Home by J. Dicks (c1870) (Dicks' Standard Plays, number 511)
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1861: Billed as Our Old House at Home! or Worth not Wealth the play was to have been performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Sefton Parry and his company as a benefit for "Soldiers' Wives under the patronage of Col. Eustace and the Volunteers" on 15 August, along with The Middy Ashore () and a "Scotch Lilt" by Miss Powell. However due to the unexplained absence of the key actor John Howard, the piece was not played on the night, but replaced by an unnamed play at the last moment.
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.98
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