Comfortable Lodgings, or Paris in 1750

A farce in two acts by Richard Brinsley Peake.

First performed in London in 1827 at the Drury Lane.

Published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1838.

Performance history in South Africa

Performed in Cape Town's Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Players on 18 September 1854 as part of a benefit performance for the comedian Mr. Kirton, along with Honesty is the best Policy (Lemon) and The Spitalfields Weaver (Bayly).

Sources

John Russell Stephens, ‘Peake, Richard Brinsley (1792–1847)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Sept 2013

Bosman, 1928: pp 409,

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