Blue Devils

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Blue Devils is a farce, in one act by George Colman the Younger.


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 in 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 The Blue Devils by 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

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[1]: pp. 197, 218


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