Woodcock's Little Game
Woodcock's Little Game is a comedy-farce in two acts John Maddison Morton (1811–1891) [1].
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The original text
First performed in London at the Royal St. James Theatre, under the management of Benjamin Webster, on Thursday, 6th October, 1864 and published by Samuel French.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1875: Performed as Woodcock's Little Game in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 11 March, with The Pilgrim of Love (Byron).
1878: Performed as Woodcock's Little Game in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 6 February, with William Tell William Tell with a Vengeance, or The Pet, the Parrot and the Pippin (Byron) and the "Transformation scene" from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
Sources
Transcribed copy of the original published text, Project Gutenberg[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton
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. 322, 329, 365-6.
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