Family Jars

From ESAT
Revision as of 05:41, 14 February 2017 by Satj (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Family Jars is a musical farce, in two acts by Joseph Lunn [1]. Music by Perry.

Produced 26 August, 1822 and acted nineteen times. Printed both at New York and in London, in Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays,’ vol. xiv. 1850.

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)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 428-9,

Go to South African Theatre/Bibliography

Go to ESAT Bibliography

Return to

Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays

Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays

Return to PLAYS III: Collections

Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances

Return to South African Festivals and Competitions

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page