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Revision as of 05:47, 21 November 2020
Le Controleur des Wagons-lits is a French comedy in three acts by by Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson (1848-1912)[1].
Translated and adapted into English as On and Off by H.B. (Henry Brougham) Farnie (1836-1889)[2]
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1904: Performed in English as On and Off by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, in April by a company under the management of the Wheeler Brothers, featuring George Giddens.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Bisson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brougham_Farnie
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
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