A Roland for an Oliver

A farce in three acts by Thomas Morton (1764 – 28 March 1838). First performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on April 29, 1819.

According to an undated handbill, it was produced in Cape Town, along with Poole's Paul Pry, some time in the late 1820s by a group of 72 Highlander soldiers in the Cape Town barracks, calling themselves The Highland Amateur Party.

Sources

Bosman, 1928: p229

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pry_(play)

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