Dr Wake's Patient

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Dr Wake's Patient is a comedy in four acts by William Gayer Mackay and Robert Ord

Some versions give the names of the authors as "Gayer Mackay, Robert Ord William" and F.C.L. Bosman (1980:p. 432) has "W.J. Mackay and 'R. Ord' ".


The original text

First produced by Otho Stuart at the Adelphi Theatre, London on 5 September, 1906.

Published in 1909 by Samuel French, ltd.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1910: Performed by the new De Jong-Black Company in the Tivoli Theatre, Cape Town, as part of a season that had commenced on 12 January.

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1909 Samuel French edition, The Internet Archive[1]

[2]


F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.432-2

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