Le Marriage de Biribi

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Le Marriage de Biribi ("The marriage of Biribi") is a comedy in three acts by Sire Barago.


The original text

Neither the play nor the author can be traced in any other source than F.C.L. Bosman (1928: p. 126), based on a newspaper advert from the Kaapsche Courant of 21 June, 1809. It was offered there as a work "translated by C.E. Boniface". It may also have been the subtitle of a play entitled

South African performances

1809: The play was apparently performed in French by the French Company led by Charles Mathurin Villet , on 1 July in the African Theatre, Cape Town, with Le Marriage de Biribi (The marriage of Biribi") (also Barago) and Oromidas, ou Le Balêt de Balais (Anon).

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 126

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