A Duel in the Dark

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

Also found as A Duel in the Dark!.

The original text

First performed in the Theatre Royal Haymarket on January the 31st, 1852 and published in London by Thomas Hailes 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 (Hugo/Donizetti, or Hugo/Weston), repeated on 20 April, with Love in Humble Life (Scribe and Dupin) and The Dear Admiral (Anon.)

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1852 text by Lacy, The Internet Archive[1]

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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