Le Pèlerin Blanc, ou Les Orphelins du Hameau

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A melodrama in two acts by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773-1844).


The original text

Published in Paris, 1801.


Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as The Wandering Boys, or The Castle of Olival by John Kerr (fl. 1814-1834).

Performance history in South Africa

1818: Performed simply as The Wandering Boys in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs and Mr Cooke and his company, on 25 July, with as afterpiece The Mock Doctor (Fielding)

1818: Performed simply as The Wandering Boys in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs and Mr Cooke and his company, on 26 September 1818, with as afterpiece The Miller and his Men (Pocock)

1845: Performed in the Roeland Street Theatre, Cape Town on 17 July by All the World's a Stage, with The Queer Subject (Coyne) as afterpiece.

Sources

Allardyce Nicoll A History of Early Nineteenth Centry Drama Volume II 1800-1850 p. 6[1]

Bosman, 1928: pp 155, 413-4


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