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1855: Performed by [[Sefton Parry]] in a [[Drawing Room Theatre]] which he constructed in the [[Commercial Exchange|Commercial Rooms]] in Cape Town on Tuesday 12 June, with what appears to have been a display piece called ''[[Seeing Parry]]'' as afterpiece.
 
1855: Performed by [[Sefton Parry]] in a [[Drawing Room Theatre]] which he constructed in the [[Commercial Exchange|Commercial Rooms]] in Cape Town on Tuesday 12 June, with what appears to have been a display piece called ''[[Seeing Parry]]'' as afterpiece.
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1864: Performed  in June as part of the closing production of the [[St George's Theatre]], Pietermaritzburg, along with ''[[The Wandering Minstrel]]'' (Mayhew) and ''[[Who Stole the Pocket Book]]''.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:40, 13 July 2018

Little Toddlekins is a comic drama in one act by Charles James Mathews (1803-1878)[1]


Original text

First performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre on December 15th, 1852 and published in Volume 12 of Lacy's acting editions, 1852.

Acted in America by the Shakespeare Club of Cincinnati, and published there in 1857.

Performance history in South Africa

1855: Performed by Sefton Parry in a Drawing Room Theatre which he constructed in the Commercial Rooms in Cape Town on Tuesday 12 June, with what appears to have been a display piece called Seeing Parry as afterpiece.

1864: Performed in June as part of the closing production of the St George's Theatre, Pietermaritzburg, along with The Wandering Minstrel (Mayhew) and Who Stole the Pocket Book.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://www.worldcat.org/title/little-toddlekins-a-comic-drama-in-one-act/oclc/1355868

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_James_Mathews

Google Books[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: p. 428,

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