Make your Wills
Make your Wills is light comedy by Henry Mayhew (1812–1887)[1] and G. Smith (fl.1830-1840)[].
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The original text
First performed in London at the Haymarket on 14 July 1836 and published the same year by Cumberland (Vol. xxxv) and Lacy (Vol. lix).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1842: Performed in Cape Town on 9 June in the Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Players alongside Love, Law and Physic (Kenney) and Love in Humble Life (Payne).
1859: Performed in Simon's Town by the amateurs of "the Royal Naval Theatre of the H.M.S. Megaera" in the Simon's Town Theatre on 28 March, along with a scene from Macbeth (performed "in character" by Captain Nightingale), Fish out of Water (Lunn) and The Thumping Legacy (Morton)
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.165
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p.344[2]
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