Le Bal Masqué

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Le Bal Masqué ("The masked ball") is a comic opera by Arthur Henry Ward (1883–1959), with music by H. Vernon.

The original text

According to Allardyce Nicoll (1975), this was first performed at the Parkhurst Theatre on 16 May, 1898.

Translations and adaptations

A "side-splitting entertainment" called The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) was apparently well known in Cape Town in the 1860s and is ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by F.C.L. Bosman (1980: p. 260). However this is highly unlikely to be true since Ward was only born in 1883. It must have been another, earlier, burlesque-style work.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

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