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| − | ''[[Little Jack Horner, or Harlequin ABC]]'' is an English [[pantomime]].
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| − | (Also found as ''[[Little Jack Horner, or Harlequin A.B.C.]]'' or simply ''[[Harlequin ABC]]'')
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| − | == The original text ==
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| − | A pantomime, inspired by the famous English nursery rhyme, ''[[Little Jack Horner]]''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Jack_Horner], was performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, London in the 1857–8 season.
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| − | [[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. The reviewer in the [[Cape Argus]] of 28 December, 1865, also suggests that most of the work was original, though the opening scene of "The Depths of Darkness, and Mystic Still and Laboratory of the Demon Alcohol", was in fact plagiarized from an "Original Extravaganza" by Francis Cowley Burnand (1836-1917)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._C._Burnand] called ''[[Ixion, or The Man at the Wheel]]''. However, the claim in the flier for the presentation that a "new" overture and music was composed by Mr [[W.G. Browne]] does suggest that the pantomime was in fact a local version of the British play, and that it is only the presentation of it that was in fact "original".
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1865: A pantomime by this name (and ascribed to [[B. Mollan]]) was performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by Messrs [[Alfred Ray]] and [[R.S. Cooper]] on 26-27 December. 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 [[Alfred Ray|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]].
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| − | 1866: Performed for two more nights (4 and 6 January) in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by Messrs [[Alfred Ray]] and [[R.S. Cooper]] .
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Jack_Horner
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._C._Burnand
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| − | [[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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