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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 07:07, 21 April 2018
A Happy Pair is a comedietta in one act by S. Theyre Smith ()[].
The author's name is sometimes found as S. Theyre-Smith and the play as The Happy Pair.
Contents
The original text
First performed at St. James Theatre, London, on 2 March, 1868. The only extant published version appears to be one by Harold Roorbach, New York (No 30 of Roorbach's American Edition of Acting Plays), published in 1890.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1875: Performed as A Happy Pair in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 22 March, with Black-Eyed Susan (Jerrold).
Sources
Facsimile version of the Roorbach edition, The Digital Archive[1]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.
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