Used Up

(Also known by the fuller title: Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy)

A petite comedy, in two acts by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890).

Performed at the Haymarket by by

Though Published in London in Dicks' Standard Plays, 1844 as a work by Dion Boucicault, but Charles Mathews influenced the play, and later claimed part authorship. Indeed a later version states it as follows: "Rather, Adapted by D. Bourcicault [sic] and Charles J. Mathews from "L'Homme Blasé" of F.A. Duvert and A.T. de Lauzanne de Vauxroussel.) Originally performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, Tuesday, February 6th, 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. Performed under the full title of Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy, 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.

Sources

Peter Thompson: Introduction to Plays by Dion Boucicault[1]

Bosman, 1928: pp. 428

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