La Femme à Deux Maris

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La Femme à Deux Maris ("The Wife With Two Husbands") is a tragedy in 3 acts by René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.


The original text

- 1802


Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch by C. van Ray.

Performance history in South Africa

1825: Performed in Cape Town by C.E. Boniface's society, Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, on 20 August 1825, with C.E. Boniface's satire Limaçon de Dichter

1825: Performed in Cape Town by Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense on 15 October 1825, with The Liar (Foote), and ending with a large scale ballet by the company. The cast for this play consisted of Messrs D. Disant, H. Roselt, C.E. Boniface, M.C. Wolff, F. Waldek, H. Meurant, W. Brandt and P. Biel and Misses C. Roselt and L. Meurant. Additional young dancers were Messrs J.M. Hancke, H Russouw, P. Theunissen, J. Rouviere, H. de Wet, L. Rouviere, A. Tromp, and Misses J.C. Geyer, S. Rouviere, C. Brink, A. Siegruhn, J. de Jongh, E.A. Geyer and A. Hancke.

Sources

http://www.worldcat.org/title/vrouw-met-twee-mannen-tooneelspel/oclc/63802825

Bosman, 1928: pp. 284-5, 294

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