Jannie Kortbroek
Jannie Kortbroek ("Johnny short pants") was a comedy by J P Acland Bischoff
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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.
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
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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