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| − | ''[[Le Barbier de Seville, ou La Précaution Inutile]]'' is a comedy in four acts by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (usually referred to simply as "Beaumarchais", 1732-1799)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Augustin_Caron_de_Beaumarchais]. (The texts of the Beaumarchais play and the popular Rossini opera based on it, are both often both referred to simply as ''[[Le Barbier de Seville]]'' or ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'')
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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | Written in 1772 as the first of a trilogy of plays entitled ''Le Roman de la Famille Almaviva'', with the others being ''[[Le Mariage de Figaro]]'' (1778) and ''[[L'Autre Tartuffe ou La Mère coupable]]'' (1792).
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| − | First performed in Paris on 23 and 25 February, 1775 at the Comédie-Française and was published by Ruault, Paris, in the same year.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Barbier van Seville, of De Onnutte Voorzorg]]'', published in 1793.
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| − | It was twice adapted into an opera:
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| − | ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La Precauzione Inutile'' by Paisiello (1782).
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| − | ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'' by Gioachino Rossini (1816).
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1783: According to travel-writer Le Vaillant a good production of Beaumarchais's play was done in French in the Cape in 1783. Performed (wholly or in part) in the [[Garrison Theatre|Cape Town Barracks Theatre]] during the occupation by French troops sent to defend the Cape against the British Fleet (1781-1795), it was possibly the first production by them and it counts as one of the first documented performances in South Africa.
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| − | 1804: Performed in the [[African Theatre]] by the [[Het Fransche Liefhebbery Geselschap]] under the leadership of [[C.M. Villet]] on Saturday 2 April, repeated on 30 April - this time with the addition of ''[[Arlequin Afficheur]]'' (Desfountaines and Barré).
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| − | 1824: Performed in [[Dutch]] on 31 July in the [[African Theatre]] by the amateur company [[Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense]], apparently with the overture of Rossini's opera and other music provided by [[Charles Etienne Boniface]]. It was accompanied by the one act play ''[[Jérome Pointu]]'' by Beaunoir (but wrongly accredited to "D'Orvigny" by [[F.C.L. Bosman]] (1928, p. 279) or his source).
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/worp001gesc02_01/worp001gesc02_01_0019.php
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| − | https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Barbier_de_S%C3%A9ville
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 89-90, 279-80,
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