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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1825: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Grijze man, of De Rondborstige]]'' by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] in the [[African Theatre]] on 16 April  1825, as afterpiece to ''[[Pamela]]'' (Pelletier Volméranges)
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1825: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Grijze man, of De Rondborstige]]'' by [[Tot Nut en Vermaak]] in the [[African Theatre]] on 16 April  1825, as afterpiece to ''[[Pamela, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld]]'' (Pelletier Volméranges)
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 07:21, 8 October 2016

L'Homme Gris ("The grey man") is a comedy in three acts by Jean Marie Théodore Baudouin (called d'Aubigny) and Adolphe Poujol.

The original text

First performed at the Théatre Royal de l’Odéon in Paris on 23 September 1817.

Published by Mad. Ladvocat, Paris, 1817.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch as De Grijze man, of De Rondborstige ("The grey man, or the frank one (man)") by "P.L." (P. Lemarque). Also referred to simply as De Rondborstige

Published in Amsterdam by Wed. H. van Kesteren en zoon, 1817.

Performance history in South Africa

1825: Performed in Dutch as De Grijze man, of De Rondborstige by Tot Nut en Vermaak in the African Theatre on 16 April 1825, as afterpiece to Pamela, of De Zegepraal der Onschuld (Pelletier Volméranges)

Sources

Facsimile version of the original French text (1817), Google E-book[1]

Facsimile version of the Dutch text (second edition), Google E-book[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: p. 235

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