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''[[My Turn Next]]'' is a play by T.J. Williams ()[]
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''[[My Turn Next]]'' is a farce in one act by Thomas J. Williams (1824-1874)[]
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
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Published in Boston by C.H. Spencer in 1867 and by Lee & Shepard, ca. 1870.
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
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Facsimile version of the Spencer text, [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086871118&view=1up&seq=3]
  
 
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

Revision as of 06:36, 27 October 2020

My Turn Next is a farce in one act by Thomas J. Williams (1824-1874)[]

The original text

Published in Boston by C.H. Spencer in 1867 and by Lee & Shepard, ca. 1870.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed on 24 April by the Disney Roebuck's company in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, at the time under the temporary management of C. Wilstone. Also played was Extremes, or Men of the Day (Falconer).

1876: Performed on 3 August by the Disney Roebuck's company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, at the time under the temporary management of C. Wilstone. Also played was The Surgeon of Paris (Anon).

1877: Performed on 20 August by the Disney Roebuck's company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, with The Shaughraun (Boucicault). The evening a benefit for William Elton and Fanny Lewis.

Sources

Facsimile version of the Spencer text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[1]

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.338, 341, 359

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