Andy Blake, or The Irish Diamond

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Andy Blake, or The Irish Diamond is an Irish comedy in two acts by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)[1].

The original text

Founded on Le Gamin de Paris, ou L'enfant de Geneviève, by Mme Fanny Richomme ... Paris [1837]" Alfred Bayard


Performed under this name on March 1,1854, at the Boston Museum. Published as Andy Blake, or The Irish Diamond in New York by Samuel French, 1858. (No 110 of French's Minor Drama) and in London by John Dicks, [ca. 1860?] Dicks' standard plays ; no. 556

Afterwards called The Dublin Boy or The Irish Boy and performed as The Dublin Boy in London, 1862. 'The Dublin Boy' ('Le Gamin de Paris') was seen 10 Feb. 1862,

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1878: Performed on 3 April in the Theatre Royal in Cape Town by the Disney Roebuck company, with Constance Young in the cast. Also played was Adrift.

1878: Repeated on 4 April in the Theatre Royal in Cape Town by the Disney Roebuck company. Also played was British Born.

1878: Performed on 15 July in the Theatre Royal in Cape Town by the Disney Roebuck company. Also played was Heroes (Edwardes). This evening a "Grand Comlimentary Benefit for Captain Roebuck".


Sources

Facsimile version of the 1857 edition, Internet Archive[2]

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Boucicault,_Dion_(DNB01)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 367, 371.

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