The Mountaineers

A three-act musical historical drama in three acts by George Colman (the Younger). Based loosely on a pair of stories in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605).It was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on Saturday, August 3, 1793, and had 25 performances. There were many revivals in later years.

Performances in South Africa

30 August 1817: Presented in Cape Town, in South Africa under the patronage of the Governor by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre , with The Anatomist (Ravenscroft) as afterpiece.

22 May 1824: Presented in Cape Town, in South Africa by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre , as afterpiece to The Mountaineers (Colman).

12 June 1824: Repeated by the English Theatricals, as afterpiece to Lovers' Vows (Inchbald/Kotzebue)