Children in the Wood

A play by Thomas Morton. A two-act musical entertainment.

First performed at the Haymarket 1 October 1793. A pirated edition published in Dublin, 1794. Printed for John Rice

Performance history in South Africa

Brought to in Cape Town as a part of a puppet show put on by the so-called "Automata" or "Automaton Figures", large mechanical puppets, by W.F.H. Parker in 1837. It was performed along with Polander, the dramatic play The Enchanted Turk and Joey Grimaldi's Trip to Brentford.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton_(playwright)

Bosman, 1928: p. 231

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