The Last Night of André Chenier

A "tragic scene" by Victor Hugo (1802-1885), performed in Cape Town.

The original text

This is most probably a performed version of the tragic poem A André Chenier by Victor Hugo (1802-1885), which celebrated the life of the executed Revolutionary poet André Chenier (1762 – 1794).

Performance history in South Africa

1848: Performed as part of an evening's "grand entertainment" in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town by Thêàtre de L'Union on 24 February, also featuring the farce Les Ressources de Jonathas, and a Great Intermezzo" of music and dance. Given the title, the poem was possibly performed in English rather than the original French.

Sources

http://poesie.webnet.fr/lesgrandsclassiques/poemes/victor_hugo/a_andre_chenier.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Ch%C3%A9nier

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928: pp. 437-8,

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