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''[[Family Jars]]'' is a musical farce, in one act by Joseph Lunn (1784–1863)[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lunn,_Joseph_(DNB00)]. Music by Perry.
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''[[Family Jars]]'' is a musical farce, in two acts by Joseph Lunn (1784–1863)[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lunn,_Joseph_(DNB00)]. Music by Perry.
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Given as a one act farce in Lunn's biography. 
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
Produced 26 August, 1822 at the Haymarket Theatre, London, and acted nineteen times. Performed at the Park Theatre and Burton's Theatre in New York. Printed both at New York and in London, in Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays,’ vol. xiv. 1850.
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Produced 26 August, 1822 at the Haymarket Theatre, London, and acted nineteen times. Performed at the Park Theatre and Burton's Theatre in New York. Printed both at New York and in London, in Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays,’ vol. xiv. 1850 and as an annotated text in The Dramatic Publishing Company's series ''Sergels's Acting Drama'' No 230, Chicago, 1860.
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lunn,_Joseph_(DNB00)
 
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lunn,_Joseph_(DNB00)
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Facsimile version of the 1860 edition, Hathitrust-ebook[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035136871;view=1up;seq=1]
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 428-9,  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 428-9,  

Revision as of 05:54, 14 February 2017

Family Jars is a musical farce, in two acts by Joseph Lunn (1784–1863)[1]. Music by Perry.

Given as a one act farce in Lunn's biography.

The original text

Produced 26 August, 1822 at the Haymarket Theatre, London, and acted nineteen times. Performed at the Park Theatre and Burton's Theatre in New York. Printed both at New York and in London, in Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays,’ vol. xiv. 1850 and as an annotated text in The Dramatic Publishing Company's series Sergels's Acting Drama No 230, Chicago, 1860.

Performance history in South Africa

1855: Performed in Cape Town by Sefton Parry as afterpiece to Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy (Boucicault), with a musical interlude. This was done on Wednesday 13 June, in a Drawing Room Theatre which he had constructed in the Commercial Rooms in Cape Town.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lunn,_Joseph_(DNB00)

Facsimile version of the 1860 edition, Hathitrust-ebook[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 428-9,

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