The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles

by James Robinson Planché. A Romantic Melodrama in two acts, preceded by an introductory vision. It was first performed at the English Opera House (Lyceum) on 9 August 1820, and published the same year by John Lowndes in London.

According to Nunzia Cataldo (in THEA : Teaching&Study Aids [1])It was an adaptation of a French melodrama, Le Vampire by Pierre Carmouche, Charles Nodier and Achille de Jouffry, (first staged in Paris, 13 June 1820. The French play was in its turn inspired by John Polidori’s tale, The Vampyre, published in 1819 and based on Fragment of a Novel, written by Lord Byron in 1816.

Performance history in South Africa

Performed by the Private Amateur Company on 31 July 1837 in the Cape Town Theatre, alongside The Miller's Maid (Saville).

Repeated by them on Monday 9 April, 1838, alongside Love in humble Life (Payne) and Amateurs and Actors (Peake).

Sources

Bosman, 1928: pp 182

http://www.unipr.it/arpa/dipling/GT/Seminari/cataldo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9

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