Le Courrier de Lyon, ou L'attaque de la Malle-Poste
Le Courrier de Lyon, ou L'attaque de la Malle-Poste is a French play in five acts and eight tableaux by Eugène Moreau (1806-1876), Paul Siraudin and Alfred Delacour
Not to be confused with the drama in five acts called L'Affaire du Courrier de Lyon (1953) by Marcel Dubois ()[].
Contents
The original text
The play deals with an event in 1796, known as "l'Affaire du courrier de Lyon", about a spectacular attack
First performed in the Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris, on 15 March, 1850. Published Michel Lévy fr. in 1850 and in 1856 (as Volume 61 of Théâtre contemporain illustré).
Facsimile version of the original French text, BnF Gallica[1]
Translations and adaptations
Translated and adapted into English as The Lyons Mail, a play in three acts by C. Reade.
The French play formed the basis of the French film Affaire du courrier de Lyon by Claude Autant-Lara and Maurice Lehmann (1937[2]).
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
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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