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''[[Little Jack Horner, or Harlequin ABC]]'' is an English pantomime.
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#REDIRECT [[Little Jack Horner]]
 
 
(Also found as ''[[Little Jack Horner, or Harlequin A.B.C.]]'' or simply ''[[Harlequin ABC]]'')
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
A pantomime by this name was performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, London in the 1857–8 season.
 
 
 
[[William Groom]] (cited by [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980: pp. 192-3) however, claims that the piece done in South Africa was an ''original'' work penned by a Mr [[B. Mollan]] of Cape Town. In this respect, the reviewer in the [[Cape Argus]] of 28 December, 1865, suggests that though everything else was original,  the opening scene of "The Depths of Darkness, and Mystic Still and Laboratory of the Demon Alcohol", was in fact plagiarized from  is an "Original Extravaganza" by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917)[] called ''[[Ixion, or The Man at the Wheel]]''.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1865: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by Messrs [[Alfred Ray]] and [[R.S. Cooper]] on 26-27 December, and claimed by [[William Groom]] (cited by [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980: pp. 192-3) to have been an ''original'' work penned by a Mr [[B. Mollan]] of Cape Town. According to the flier for the presentation a "new" overture and music was composed by Mr [[W.G. Browne]], choreography of dances was by Mrs [[R.I. Cooper]],  scenery by Mr [[R.S. Cooper]], properties and masks by Mr [[Der. F. la Yar]], mechanical contribution by Mr W.G. Browne, Harlequinade and Pantomimic business by Mr [[Alfred Ray]], and [[Herr Luin]], comic scenes painted by Mr [[C.J.M. Smith]]. 
 
 
 
1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by Messrs [[Alfred Ray]] and [[R.S. Cooper]] on 4 and 6 January.
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 192-3
 
 
 
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