Beauty and the Barge

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Beauty and the Barge is a farce by W.W. Jacobs and Louis N. Parker.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1906: Performed in the Opera House, Cape Town, by a visiting British comedy company, under the auspices of the Wheeler Theatre Company. The lead was taken by Herbert Greville.

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.


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