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1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] as part of their introductory production in the [[Harrington Street Theatre ]], Cape Town, on 29 January, as afterpiece to ''[[Lucrezia Borgia]]'' (Weston), repeated on 20 April, with ''[[Love in Humble Life]]'' (Scribe and Dupin) and ''[[The Dear Admiral]]'' (Anon.)
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1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] as part of their introductory production in the [[Harrington Street Theatre ]], Cape Town, on 29 January, as afterpiece to ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' (Weston), repeated on 20 April, with ''[[Love in Humble Life]]'' (Scribe and Dupin) and ''[[The Dear Admiral]]'' (Anon.)
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:23, 12 August 2019

A Duel in the Dark is a farce in one act by J. Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[].

The original text

Published in London by T.H. Lacy.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company as part of their introductory production in the Harrington Street Theatre , Cape Town, on 29 January, as afterpiece to Lucretia Borgia (Weston), repeated on 20 April, with Love in Humble Life (Scribe and Dupin) and The Dear Admiral (Anon.)

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)


F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.325

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