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''[[Froufrou]]'' is a French play in five acts by Henri Mailhoc (1831-1897)[] and Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovic_Hal%C3%A9vy].  
 
''[[Froufrou]]'' is a French play in five acts by Henri Mailhoc (1831-1897)[] and Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovic_Hal%C3%A9vy].  
  
Also found as ''[[Frou Frou]]'' and ''[[Frou-Frou]]'' in various versions.  
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Also found as '''''[[Frou Frou]]''''' and '''''[[Frou-Frou]]''''' in various versions.  
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1875: The Webster English version was performed as ''[[Frou-Frou, or Fashion and Folly]]'' by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, on 7 May, with ''[[Stage Struck]]'' ()
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1875: The Webster English version was performed as '''''[[Frou-Frou, or Fashion and Folly]]''''' by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 7 May, with ''[[Stage Struck]]'' ()
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 12:30, 12 January 2020

Froufrou is a French play in five acts by Henri Mailhoc (1831-1897)[] and Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908)[1].

Also found as Frou Frou and Frou-Frou in various versions.

The original text

First performed in the Théâtre du Gymnase, Paris, in 1869. Text published in Paris by Michel Levy Frères in 1870.

Translations and adaptations

Translated and adapted into English as "Frou Frou" by Augustin Daly (1838-1899) and first performed in the Fifth Avenue Theater, New York, on 15 February, 1870. Published in New York by Samuel French, c1870 as no CCCLIX of French's Standard Drama. Subtitled "A Comedy of Powerful Human Interest".

Another version, entitled Fou-Frou, or A School for Levity was written by Benjamin Webster (the Younger), and first performed in the Brighton Theatre, on 14 March 1870 and at the St James Theatre, London on 14 April, 1870 (now renamed Frou-Frou, or Fashion and Passion.

Many film versions were made over the years, including a 1914 silent film by Eugene Moore; Frou-Frou, directed by Alfredo De Antoni (Italy, 1918), Frou-Frou directed by Otto Rippert (Germany, 1922), Frou-Frou directed by Guy du Fresnay (France, 1924); Frou-Frou directed by Augusto Genina (1955, Italy), etc.

Performance history in South Africa

1875: The Webster English version was performed as Frou-Frou, or Fashion and Folly by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, on 7 May, with Stage Struck ()

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1870 French text by Michel Levy, The Internet Archive[2]

Facsimile version of the 1870 English text by Daly, Hathi Trust Digital Library[3]

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frou_Frou_(film_1914)

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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