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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
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1878: Performed by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 6 April, with '' ''[[Withered Leaves]]'' (Brougham).
  
 
1878: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 1 April, as a benefit for [[Mr. Palmer]]
 
1878: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 1 April, as a benefit for [[Mr. Palmer]]

Revision as of 06:16, 19 May 2018

British Born is a play, consisting of a prologue and three acts, by Paul Meritt (1843/4-1895) and Henry Pettitt (1848–1893)[1]

The original text

Styled "a new and original drama of national and domestic interest", it was first produced on 17 October, 1872, at the Grecian Theatre, London, and published as a French's Acting Edition by Samuel French Ltd in 1872.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1878: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 6 April, with Withered Leaves (Brougham).

1878: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 1 April, as a benefit for Mr. Palmer

1878: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 4 April, with Andy Blake (Boucicault).

1878: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 6 April, with Withered Leaves (Broughton).

1878: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 17 and 18 June, and a performance by the local ballet troupe called "The Grotesques".

Sources

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)

"Administrative / Biographical History", Papers of Henry Pettitt, Manchester University Library[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 367, 369

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