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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
 
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1827: First performed on Monday 27th August in Cape Town's [[African Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]] by the [[Garrison Players|Garrison Amateur Company]], along with the "operatic interlude" ''[[Amoroso]]'' (Planché) and ''[[Miss in Her Teens]]'' (Garrick).
 
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 11:21, 21 May 2014

A popular farce in two acts by William Thomas (W. T.) Moncrieff (1794-1857), based on Monsieur Tonson: A Tale in Verse (1796) by John Taylor (1757-1832).

Performance history in South Africa

1827: First performed on Monday 27th August in Cape Town's Cape Town Theatre by the Garrison Amateur Company, along with the "operatic interlude" Amoroso (Planché) and Miss in Her Teens (Garrick).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

https://archive.org/details/monsieurtonsonpo00monc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomas_Moncrieff

http://hockliffe.dmu.ac.uk/items/0810.html

Bosman, 1928: pp.191

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