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''Not to be confused with ''[[Fish out of Water]]'' a full-length farce by  Derek Benfield ()[https://www.samuelfrench.co.uk/p/11859/fish-out-of-water-original-version/], or ''[[Fish out of Water]]'' a "An existential play" by Thomas Gray ()[]''
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==

Revision as of 13:09, 17 December 2019

Fish Out of Water, or Cookery and Clerkship is a farce in one act by Joseph Lunn ()[].

Also found as Fish out of Water

Not to be confused with Fish out of Water a full-length farce by Derek Benfield ()[1], or Fish out of Water a "An existential play" by Thomas Gray ()[]

The original text

First performed 1824

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1859: Performed as Fish out of Water in Simon's Town by the amateurs of "the Royal Naval Theatre of the H.M.S. Megaera" in the Simon's Town Theatre on 28 March, along with a scene from Macbeth (performed "in character" by Captain Nightingale), Make your Wills (Mayhew and Smith) and The Thumping Legacy (Morton)

Sources

https://www.umass.edu/AdelphiTheatreCalendar/auth.htm#let06l

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.165

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