Statue Blanche, or Harlequin and the Magic Cross
Statue Blanche, or Harlequin and the Magic Cross was a 19th century "penny gaff"[] pantomime by an anonymous author.
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Cited by Robert Leach (2018)[1] as an example of the sexually explicit and bawdy comedy of the usual of the so-called "gaff" piece, mixing "ballet", with chances to use Pantaloon and Clown.
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Performance history in South Africa
1862: Referred to simply as Statue Blanch, it was performed by Franklin's Circus as part of a five month long season in Cape Town.
Sources
Robert Leach. 2018. An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance: Volume Two - From the Industrial Revolution to the Digital Age. London: Routledge, p.94.
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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