Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy
A petite comedy, in two acts by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890). (Though Charles Mathews influenced the play, and later claimed part authorship). Based on a French original.
Originally performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, Tuesday, February 6th, 1844.
Published in London in Dicks' Standard Plays, 1844
Performance history in South Africa
Sefton Parry's first production at Cape Town, in which he and his wife played the leads, helped by members of the Garrison Players. It was accompanied by a musical interlude and the musical farce Family Jars (Lunn) as afterpiece. This was done on Wednesday 13 June 1855, in a Drawing Room Theatre which he had constructed in the Commercial Rooms in Cape Town.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Peter Thompson Introduction to Plays by Dion Boucicault[1]
Bosman, 1928: pp. 428
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