How to Pay the Rent

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How to Pay the Rent is a farce in one act by Tyrone Power.


The original text

Originally produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in April, 1840.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1853: Performed as How to Pay the Rent in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, by an amateur company, possibly members of Lycett's Company, as afterpiece to The Golden Farmer, or The Last Crime (Webster).

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 421-2

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