Ambrose Gwinett, or A Sea Side Story
See Ambrose Gwinett, or A Sea Side Story: a Melo-drama, in Three Acts,
Performance history in South Africa
Performed by the English Amateur Company in the Cape Town Theatre on 13 October, 1838, with as afterpiece The Spectre Bridegroom, or A Ghost in spite of Himself (Moncrieff). The title wrongly given as "Ambrose Guinett, or a Sea-Side Story"
According to Bosman (1928), this was to be the last production mounted in the African Theatre before it was sold and turned into a church, and it was also the last production by English amateurs in Cape Town till 1843, for the Methodist anti-theatre movement had temporarily won the battle.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Bosman, 1928: p. 208
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