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Le Bandit is a French musical play in two acts ("pièce en 2 actes mêlée de chants") by Emmanuel Théaulon, (1787-1841)[1], Charles Nombret Saint-Laurent, (1790??-1833)[2] and Théodore Anne, (1797-1869) [3].
Contents
The original text
First performed in French at the Théatre de Nouveautés in Paris on 12 September, 1829 and published in Paris by R.Riga in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Translated and adapted into English as The Brigand by James Robinson Planché (1796–1880)[4]. Called is "a romantic drama in two acts" it was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 18 November 1829. Published by G.H. Davidson (185*?) and S. French (1880/1?)
Performance history in South Africa
1846: Performed in English as The Brigand, most probably by All the World's a Stage, on Thursday 9 July. It was the opening production in the newly re-opened Hope Street Theatre, now known as the Victoria Theatre, and was followed by A Day after the Fair (Somerset).
1846: The Brigand performed on Saturday 4 September , most probably by All the World's a Stage, in the Victoria Theatre, followed by The Original (Morton) and The Lottery Ticket, or the Lawyer's Clerk (Beazley).
1846: The Brigand performed on special request on Saturday 12 September, during the annual Race Week, again probably by All the World's a Stage and in the Victoria Theatre. It followed on Who's Who? or The Double Imposture (Poole).
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [5]: pp. 415
Facsimile version of the 1829 French text, BnF Gallica[6]
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006061413
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_brigand.html?id=yH_PAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
Martin Meisel. 2014. Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England. Princeton University Press: p. 111[7]
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