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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1863: Performed in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Cape Town by the [[11th Regiment]] on 22 and 29 January, with ''[[Catherine Howard, or The Tomb, the Throne and the Scaffold]]'' (Dumas/Suter).
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1862: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town by the [[Clara Tellett]] and her company on 19June, with ''[[The Housekeeper, or The White Rose]]'' (Jerrold).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:52, 15 November 2018

Catching an Heiress is a farce in one act by Charles Selby (1802?-1863)[].

Also found as Catching an Heiress, or Which is Which?.

The original text

First performed in London in 1835 and first published by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 19th century British drama no. 633 and as a Lacy's acting edition (no.582). Also published by Duncombe in 1836 (with George Daniel's The Disagreeable Surprise), as Issue 402 of Dicks' standard plays (with Hunting a Turtle) in 1883, and as Volume 47, Issue 10 of Acting plays by De Witt in 18** and by Duncombe and Company in 1899.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town by the Clara Tellett and her company on 19June, with The Housekeeper, or The White Rose (Jerrold).

Sources

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22505159?q&sort=holdings+desc&_=1542256498451&versionId=47519279

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Catching_an_Heiress.html?id=bpsinQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 131, 221

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