Love à-la-Mode

A two-act play by Charles Macklin (1699 - 1797).

First played at Drury Lane on 12 December 1759, and first published in 1779.

Performance history in South Africa

1807: Performed by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 29 August, 1807 as afterpiece to She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)

1824: Performed by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, Cape Town on 10 April 1824 as afterpiece to Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz (Hook)

1853: Performed by the Officers of the Garrison in Grahamstown in the Theatre Royal on 11 0ctober 1853, along with something called The Three Clerks (Bosman, 1928: p.507)

Sources

http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/prescrip/18thcComedy/plays/70_mack_love.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Macklin

Bosman, 1928: pp.198

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