Ma Femme et Mon Parapluie
Ma Femme et Mon Parapluie ("My wife and My Umbrella") is a vaudeville in one act by Laurencin[1] (Paul-Aimé Chapelle, 1806-1890)
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The original text
First performed in French at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris on 23 June 1834 and published by Marchant (Paris) in the 1835.
Translations and adaptations
An English text entitled My Young Wife and My Old Umbrella was adapted from the French by Benjamin Webster, and first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 23 June 1837, starring the adaptor, and published 1837.
Performance history in South Africa
1850: Performed in English, (possibly under the title My New Wife and My Old Umbrella, and attributed to R.B. Peake) by the Garrison Players (by a group locally known as Captain Hall's Company) in Cape Town on 8 May, as an afterpiece to Richelieu, or The Conspiracy (Bulwer-Lytton).
1850: Repeated in English (by special request, and now cited under its proper title of My Young Wife and My Old Umbrella, and correctly attributed to Webster) by Captain Hall's Company in Cape Town on 29 May, now as an afterpiece to The Lancers (Payne) and confusingly (according to Bosman, 1928[2]]:p, 398), a "Comedietta, in two Acts, by D. Boucicault, Esq., A Lover by Proxy! or My Daughter Sir! (Planché)"
Sources
Facsimile version of the original French text, Imprimerie de J.-R. Mévrel, 1834, Google eBook[3]
Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[4]
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Webster,_Benjamin_Nottingham_(DNB00)
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[5]: p. 398
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