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1916: Staged at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]] from June 9-15.
 
1916: Staged at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]] from June 9-15.
 
 
1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 11:03, 27 February 2020

Jannie Kortbroek ("Johnny short pants") was a comedy by J P Acland Bischoff

The original text

Stephen Gray (1999, p.101) suggests that it was written in imitation of Stephen Black's popular plays, even misattributed to Black by P.W. Laidler in his Annals of the Cape Stage (1926).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1916: Staged at the Port Elizabeth Opera House from June 9-15.

Sources

Eastern Province Herald, June 7, 1916.

Stephen Gray. 1999. Free-lancers and Literary Biography in South Africa. Rodopi, 1999: p.101.

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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