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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
Opened at the Surrey Theatre, London on 14 September 1867; in New York City 11 April, 1871.
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Opened at the Adelphi Theatre, London on 16 March, 1867.
  
Published in London by L.C. Lacy in 1867(?), Samuel French  
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Published in London by L.C. Lacy in 1867, also by Samuel French in the 1870s.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:38, 7 May 2018

Lost in London is a romantic drama in three acts by Watts Phillips (1825-1874)[1].

The original text

Opened at the Adelphi Theatre, London on 16 March, 1867.

Published in London by L.C. Lacy in 1867, also by Samuel French in the 1870s.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed as Nobody's Child in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, by the Disney Roebuck company on 10 August, with The Boots at the Swan (Selby).

Sources

Allardyce Nicoll. 2009. History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 5, Part 2. Cambridge University Press: p. 523[2]

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

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 1923. (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.


William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.

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