A Nice Quiet Day
A Nice Quiet Day is a farce in one act by H.J. Hipkins and Gaston Murray.
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The original text
First performed in the Royal Theatre, London on 26 December, 1861.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1869: Performed by the Lanarkshire Dramatic Club (amateur players from the 99th Regiment) in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 19 May, with as The Gipsy Farmer, or Jack and Jack's Brother (Johnstone) and "I always was a Swell", a comic song sung "in character" by R. Norcliffe.
1878: Performed as Jack and Jack's Brother by the Disney Roebuck company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on "Regatta Night", 24 May, with The Captain's not a Miss (Wilks) and "the main scenes from Robinson Crusoe" (Defoe/ Byron)
Sources
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 5. Cambridge University Press, p. 808[1]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 264, 341, 369, 370
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