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Facsimile version of the Roorbach edition, The Digital Archive[https://archive.org/stream/happypaircomedie00they#page/n1/mode/2up]
 
Facsimile version of the Roorbach edition, The Digital Archive[https://archive.org/stream/happypaircomedie00they#page/n1/mode/2up]
 
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.

Revision as of 07:06, 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.


The original text

First performed at St. James Theatre, London, on 2 March, 1868. Published by and by Harold Roorbach, New York, as No 30 of Roorbach's American Edition of Acting Plays 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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