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''[[Blue Devils]]'' is a farce, in one act  by George Colman the Younger.
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== The original text ==
 
 
 
Translated and adapted from the French play by Joseph Patrat (1733-1801), it was first performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden, London on the 24th of April, 1798. Printed by W. Burton for J. Cawthorn and J. Cawthorn, 1808.
 
 
 
== Translations and adaptations ==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1823: Listed as performed under the title ''[[Blue Devils|The Blue Devils]]'' by [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1928, p.197)  on 26 July 1823 in the [[African Theatre]] by the [[English Theatricals]] company,  as an afterpiece to ''[[The Honey Moon]]'' (Tobin).
 
 
 
1831: Performed on 12 November, by [[All the World's a Stage]] in the [[African Theatre]], as an between ''[[The Innkeeper of Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber]]'' (Fitzball) and ''[[The Two Galley Slaves]]'' (Payne).
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001023501
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 197, 218
 
 
 
 
 
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