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Full title: ''[[A race for a dinner: or, "No dinner yet"]]''.  A farce in one act by James Thomas Goodenham Rodwell (in some sources with George Daniel). A translation and adaptation of the French comedy  ''[[Le gastronome sans argent]]''  by Scribe and Brulay.
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#REDIRECT[[Le Gastronome sans Argent]]
 
 
First performed, apparently after Rodwell's death) at Covent Garden Theatre in 1828 and published the same year in London (Thomas Hailes Lacy and/or Samuel French). Performed and published in New York in 1829.
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1854: Performed by the [[City Amateur Theatrical Society]] on Wednesday, 26th July in the Dutch Company's [[Bree Street Theatre]] (corner of Dorp Street), Cape Town. It followed ''[[Hamlet]]'' (Act 3)  and was followed by ''[[The Secret]]'' (Morris) and ''[[Ion]]'' (Talfourd).
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
https://archive.org/details/racefordinnerfar00rodw
 
 
 
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009564854
 
 
 
http://www.worldcat.org/title/race-for-a-dinner-or-no-dinner-yet-a-farce-in-one-act-adapted-from-the-french/oclc/38482498?ht=edition&referer=di
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp. 426-7
 
 
 
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