Divorçons!

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Divorçons!is a farce by Victorien Sardou

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Translations and adaptations

A German version, based on Sardou's play, called Die Geschiedene Frau ("The divorcée") was written as an operetta in three acts by Leo Fall with a libretto by Victor Léon.

An English version, based on Fall and Leon's play, also an operetta in three acts and now called The Girl in the Train, was written by Harry B. Smith (1860-1936), to the music by Leo Fall, and was first produced at the newly opened Globe Theatre, New York, from 10th March to 11th May 1910.

Performance history in South Africa

1911: Performed as The Girl in the Train by the Wheeler Company in the Opera House, Cape Town.


Sources

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/the-girl-in-the-train-3907

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.


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