Love à la Mode
Love à la Mode is a comic satire by Charles Macklin (1699–1797)[1]
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The original text
First played: 1759 at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. First published: 1779.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1807: Performed in Cape Town on 29 August by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith).
1824: Performed in Cape Town on 10 April by the English Theatricals amateur company in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to Tekeli, or The Siege of Montgatz (Hook).
1853: Performed in Grahamstown on Tuesday 11 October by the Garrison Players in the Theatre Royal, with as afterpiece The Three Clerks (Oxberry).
Sources
Text of play (1806 version)[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Macklin
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 73, 198, 507
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