Harlequin Skeleton

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Harlequin Skeleton is a pantomime by an anonymous author/creator.

Also found as Harlequin the Skeleton and Harlequin Transformed into a Skeleton.

The original text

It is apparently is one of the oldest Harlequinades or pantomimes on record, with performances being recorded in Liverpool (16 July 1774).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1864: Apparently in the Circus Building, Cape Town, by the Feroni Family (or a company working with them).

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.188

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