Love à-la-Mode
A two-act play by Charles Macklin (1699 - 1797).
First played at Drury Lane on 12 December 1759, and first published in 1779.
Performance history in South Africa
1807: Performed by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 29 August as afterpiece to She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)
1824: Performed by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 10 April as afterpiece to Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz (Hook)
1853: Performed by the Officers of the Garrison in Grahamstown in the Theatre Royal on 11 0ctober, along with something called The Three Clerks (Bosman, 1928: p.507)
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/prescrip/18thcComedy/plays/70_mack_love.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Macklin
Bosman, 1928: pp.198
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