A Terrible Secret
A Terrible Secret is a play by W.R. Waldron (William Richard Waldron, fl. 1850s-1890s)[1].
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The original text
The author was a prolific 19th century theatre manager, actor, director and playwright, who authored or co-authored at least twenty-nine plays. A Terrible Secret was apparently first performed on 30 September 1889.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1867: Performed by "Le Roy's Original Company" in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 28 March and 1 April, with Municipal Muddles, or Love in the Dark (Utting) and My Wife's Second Floor (Morton).
Sources
http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82202008/
Thomas Recchio. 2020. "Embodied Scholarship: A Performance History of William Richard Waldron’s Lizzie Leigh; or, The Murder Near the Old Mill (1863)", Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film 2020, Vol. 47(1) 43–67[2]
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.221.
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