Milky White

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Milky White is a domestic drama in two acts by H.T. Craven (Henry Thornton Craven, 1818-1905)[]

The original text

Described also as a serio-comic piece in some issues, it featured the author as the leading character of the milkman in the first performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool on 20 June 1864.

It was also performed by another company at the Olympic Theatre New York on 21 November 1864.

Published in London by **, and in New York by H. Roorbach in 1889.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1877: Performed by the Disney Roebuck company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 13 September, with The Artful Dodge (Blanchard).

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1889 American text by H. Roorbach, Internet Archive[1]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 360

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