A Kiss in the Dark

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

A kiss in the dark : a farce in one act / by John Baldwin Buckstone ... 

by Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879.

Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy 1852

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) Often played in South Africa.

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.

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