Bella Donna
Bella Donna is a play by James Bernard Fagan
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The original text
Adapted from the 1909 novel of the same name by Robert Smythe Hichens, the play was first performed on Broadway in 1912, featuring Alla Nazimova, and running for 72 performances.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
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: pp.203-205
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