Jane

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Jane is a farce in three acts by Harry Nicholls and William Lestocq

The original text

Melodrama set in Ireland, about the murder of Sir Philip Kingston, and the love of Ethel Kingston and Harry, the son of the Knight of Ballyveeney, who is accused of the murder.


A series of letters from John Coleman and Robert Buchanan appeared in The Era in August 1890, concerning the original source of the play.

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Performance history in South Africa

1892: Performed as The English Rose in the Vaudeville Theatre, Cape Town, by the visiting Emilie Bevan Comedy Company as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.

Sources

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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