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==Translations and adaptations==
 
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Translated into early Afrikaans as ''[[Het Zoen in die Donker]]'' by an unknown translator.
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 05:53, 5 November 2018

A Kiss in the Dark a farce in one act by J.B. Buckstone (John Baldwin Buckstone, 1802-1879)[1] and John Moore (1814-1893).


The original text

Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy 1852

Translations and adaptations

Translated into early Afrikaans as Het Zoen in die Donker by an unknown translator.

Performance history in South Africa

Often played in South Africa.

1857: Performed as the opening production in Sefton Parry's first wooden theatre in Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 14 September (along with Why don't she Marry? and A Thumping Legacy)

1857: Performed on 24 December by the Sefton Parry company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town theatre on 24 December, as afterpiece to Beauty and the Beast (Planché)

1860: Performed as The Kiss in the Dark on the Eastern Cape border by "The Serjeants" (sic) of the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot on July 21, 26 and 27, and August 3. The cast consisted of Serjeant P. Fox (Mr Pettibone), Serjeant H. Charlesworth (Frank Fatlions), Corporal G. Brown (Mrs Pettibone), Lance Corporal J. Smith (Mary), Also included in the evening's entertainment were a solo was performed on the violin in seven different positions by W. Allen. Then a comic song "Solomon Lob" in character by J. M. M'Kechnie, The Lady of Lyons, or Love and Pride (Bulwer-Lytton) and The Wandering Minstrel (Mayhew).


1861: Performed on 3 August in the Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Players ("the non-commissioned officers and men of the 11th Regiment") in aid of the "Distressed Lancashire Operatives" , as afterpiece to The Miller and his Men, with a group of eight African Minstrels performing as an interlude. The person in charge of arrangements is "Colour Sergeant" Heaven Sergeant Heaven.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100406655

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Moore%2C%20John%2C%201814%2D1893

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

North Lincoln Sphinx Vol 1, No 1. January 1, 1860.


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