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).
Originally performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket by Charles Mathews, Tuesday, February 6th, 1844.
Published in London in Dicks' Standard Plays, 1844 as a work by Dion Boucicault, but apparently Charles Mathews influenced the play during production, and helped with the translation and the title, and later claimed part authorship. Indeed a later version (London & New York: S. French & Son, n.d.[1] ) states emphatically: "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."
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.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Peter Thompson: Introduction to Plays by Dion Boucicault[2]
Google Books "Used Up" (London & New York: S. French & Son, n.d.)[3]
Bosman, 1928: pp. 428
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