Run Wild

Run Wild is a play by E. Coffin (fl. 1880s).

The original text

Described as a "domestic comedy" it was first performed at the Strand Theatre, London, on 30 June, 1888

Translations and adaptations

Revised and performed in New York as Uncle Joe, or Fritz in a Madhouse at the Fourteenth Street Theatre on 22 April, 1890. and as Uncle Joe: or "Fritz in a Mad House" at the Olympic Theatre, St. Louis in the same year[1].

Could it have been the source for the silent film Running Wild?[2]

Performance history in South Africa

1894: Performed as Run Wild by the Arturo Bonamici and his company in the Opera House, Cape Town, toward the end of the year. featuring Jenny Lee and George Leopold (as "Mr Parker").

Sources

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.400

Allardyce Nicoll. 1959. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press. p. 440 [3]

The New York clipper annual. 1890. Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections.[4]

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