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1862: Performed as ''[[Luke the Labourer]]'' in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Keiskama Hoek, on 12 November by  
 
1862: Performed as ''[[Luke the Labourer]]'' in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Keiskama Hoek, on 12 November by  
  
1866: Performed in the [[Garrison Theatre]] by the [[Garrison Players]] on 18 September, with ''[[The Area Belle]]'' ( (Brough and Halliday) and the popular "dance song" ''The Nervous Cures''.
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1866: Performed in the [[Garrison Theatre]], Cape Town, by the [[Garrison Players]] on 18 September, with ''[[The Area Belle]]'' ( (Brough and Halliday) and the popular "dance song" ''The Nervous Cures''.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 08:45, 14 August 2018

Luke the Labourer, or the Lost Son is a domestic melodrama in two acts by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[1].

(Also referred to simply as Luke the Labourer.)

The original text

The work was first written in 1826 and performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London on 17 October. The text was published in 1827.

Performance history in South Africa

1849: Presented in Cape Town in January 1849 by W.F.H. Parker, in the Drury Lane Theatre with the New English Theatrical Company (also referred to as Parker's Company in some sources).

The production received much praise from the Cape Town Mail, but Sam Sly responded with a harsh critique of the theatre and the company, suggesting that the Cape Town Mail review displayed "exaggerated and false colouring" , for he had not only found that the space was noisy, but also that "the ventilation was abominable and ...the acting was no good..". (quoted in Bosman, 1928: p. 419). Apparently this even caused the company to close down temporarily.

1853: It was done by the English Amateur Company with Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw (Morton) as afterpiece, on 19 October 1853, repeated on 24 October.

1862: Performed as Luke the Labourer in the Garrison Theatre, Keiskama Hoek, on 12 November by

1866: Performed in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, by the Garrison Players on 18 September, with The Area Belle ( (Brough and Halliday) and the popular "dance song" The Nervous Cures.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

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

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008405084

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 418-9, 423

Jill Fletcher. 1994. The Story of Theatre in South Africa: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930. Cape Town: Vlaeberg Uitgewers.

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