Monsieur Tonson

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). The name of the author of Monsieur Tonson is wrongly spelled "Moncrieffe" in the source for this production.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Dutch by B.J. van der Sandt in 1835.

1835: Performed in the Stads Schouwburg ("Civic Theatre") by the children's theatre company Kunst en Smaak on 16 October 1835, alongside Aballino Junior, of De Kleine Bandiet (Anon.). The cast included J. Stegman as "Tom King" and F. Langerman. The production was repeated on 31 October.

1837:

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, 249, 271,

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