The Beaux Stratagem
The Beaux' Stratagem is a comedy by George Farquhar (1677-1707)[1].
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The original text
First produced at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket, London, on March 8, 1707.
Translations and adaptations
Productions in South Africa
The original text
First produced at the Queen's Theatre, now the site of Her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, London, in March 1707.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1807: First produced in South Africa on the 8th of August by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre in Cape Town, with The Old Maid (Murphy)as afterpiece, an interlude written by Captain Frazer and spoken by Mr Napier in the role of "Cherry", and an Epilogue written and spoken by Captain Frazer as "Mrs Sullen".
1966: Produced by PACT, directed by François Swart, with Siegfried Mynhardt, John Whiteley, Ronald Wallace, Arthur Hall, Kerry Jordan, Maureen McAllister and Shirley Firth.
1967: Produced by CAPAB, opening at the Hofmeyr Theatre on 1 July. Directed by Roy Sargeant, with Michael Atkinson, Norman Ettlinger, Peter Curtis, Phillip Boucher, Norman Coombes, Joey Wishnia, Roger Dwyer, Ken Leach, David Goatham, Elliot Playfair, Yvonne Bryceland, Valerie Miller, Jeanne Wennberg, Gillian Garlick and Pat Armstrong. Set designed by Keith Anderson, costumes designed by Stephen de Villiers.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beaux'_Stratagem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Farquhar
Grütter, Wilhelm, CAPAB 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research. p 59.
The Beaux' Stratagem theatre programme (CAPAB, 1967).
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[2]: pp. 72,
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