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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
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1823: Performed in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on 27 September, with ''[[The Day After the Wedding, or A Wife’s First Lesson|The Day After The Wedding]]'' (Kemble) as afterpiece.
 
1823: Performed in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on 27 September, with ''[[The Day After the Wedding, or A Wife’s First Lesson|The Day After The Wedding]]'' (Kemble) as afterpiece.
  

Revision as of 19:55, 16 October 2016

Folly As It Flies is a comedy, in five acts by Frederick Reynolds.

The original text

First performed at Covent Garden in October 1801, with an Epilogue by Mr. Serjeant Sellon.

First printed in London by A. Strahan for T.N. Longman and O. Rees, 1802.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1817:

1823: Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 27 September, with The Day After The Wedding (Kemble) as afterpiece.

Sources

Facsimile of the 1802 edition, Google eBook[1]

http://www.abebooks.com/FOLLY-FLIES-comedy-five-acts-REYNOLDS/1280956123/bd

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 150, 185

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