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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
Performed in Cape Town's [[Garrison Theatre]]  by the [[Garrison Players]] on 18 September 1854 as part of a benefit performance for the comedian [[Mr. Kirton]], along with  ''[[Honesty is the best Policy ]]'' (Lemon) and ''[[The Spitalfields Weaver]]'' (Bayly).
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Performed in Cape Town's [[Garrison Theatre]]  by the [[Garrison Players]] (officers of the 73rd Regiment) on 28 September 1855 as part of a presentation "for the Patriotic Fund" , along with  ''[[Grace Huntley, or The Follies of Youth]]'' (Holl).
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:45, 11 September 2013

A farce in two acts by Richard Brinsley Peake.

First performed in London in 1827 at the Drury Lane.

Published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1838.


Performance history in South Africa

Performed in Cape Town's Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Players (officers of the 73rd Regiment) on 28 September 1855 as part of a presentation "for the Patriotic Fund" , along with Grace Huntley, or The Follies of Youth (Holl).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

John Russell Stephens, ‘Peake, Richard Brinsley (1792–1847)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 11 Sept 2013

Bosman, 1928: pp 409,

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