Difference between revisions of "Irish Justice"
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The play is ascribed to a "Charles Morton" in This is most likely to be a reference to the famous [[Music Hall]] impresario Charles Morton, (1819–1904)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Morton_(impresario)], in whose collection copy of the text has been found and published in Alex. Byer's library of tabloid plays (1914). . | The play is ascribed to a "Charles Morton" in This is most likely to be a reference to the famous [[Music Hall]] impresario Charles Morton, (1819–1904)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Morton_(impresario)], in whose collection copy of the text has been found and published in Alex. Byer's library of tabloid plays (1914). . | ||
| − | In which case it | + | In which case it could also have been a sketch created by a performer appearing in one of the vaudeville shows put on Morton's music hall theatre called the New Canterbury in the early 1860s (given the fact that it was first performed in South Africa in 1866). |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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Irish Justice is a comedy sketch in one act ascribed to Charles Morton
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The play is ascribed to a "Charles Morton" in This is most likely to be a reference to the famous Music Hall impresario Charles Morton, (1819–1904)[1], in whose collection copy of the text has been found and published in Alex. Byer's library of tabloid plays (1914). .
In which case it could also have been a sketch created by a performer appearing in one of the vaudeville shows put on Morton's music hall theatre called the New Canterbury in the early 1860s (given the fact that it was first performed in South Africa in 1866).
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Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed by the Wheeler Company in the Theatre Royal in Burg Street, Cape Town, with The Private Secretary (Von Moser/Hawtrey) in May. It was their opening production there, and Frank Wheeler played the leading roles in both plays ("Peter Mulvaney" and "Reverend Spalding").
Sources
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1914. Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures (Volume 11, Issue 2): p. [2]
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: p.381
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