The Actress Of All Work, or My Country Cousin
A Comic Sketch, in One Act by William Henry Oxberry (1784-1824).
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The original play
First opened 25 Oct 1819, at the Adelphi Theatre, London. On September 9 1821 a production was put on by Mr Tayleure, starring Mrs Tayleure.
Published texts by J. Duncombe, 1819; W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1819.
According to the Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2nd ed. 1957) the play ” was probably inspired by Colman's Actor of All Work, written for Mathews in 1817".[1]
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1833: Performed as The Actress Of All Work (author not mentioned ) by the All the World's a Stage on 21 September, with The Day After the Wedding, or A Wife’s First Lesson, the interlude A Race for Dinner (Rodwell), and the farce Rival Valets (Ebsworth).
1833: Performed as The Actress Of All Work, or Six in One (author not mentioned ) by the All the World's a Stage on 211 November, with The Iron Chest (Colman), and St Patrick’s Day (Sheridan).
Sources
The 1919 publsihed text, Google Books[2]
Facsimile of John Bull, Volumes 1-2 , p305[3]
25 Oct 1819 playbill, British Library[4]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp.185 Go to ESAT Bibliography
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