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A one-act farce by Benjamin Webster.
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#REDIRECT[[Ma Femme et Mon Parapluie]]
 
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
play ''[[Ma Femme et mon Parapluie]]'', by M. Laurencin (pseud of Paul Aimé Chapelle). First performed in French at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris on 23 June 1834 and published by Marchant (Paris) in the 1835.
 
 
 
The English text, adapted from the French by  Benjamin Webster, was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 23 June 1837, starring the adaptor,  and published 1837.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1850: Performed, (possibly under the title ''[[My New Wife and my Old Umbrella]]'', and attributed to R.B. Peake) by the [[Garrison Players]] (by a group locally known as [[Captain Hall's Company]])  in Cape Town  on 8 May, as an afterpiece to ''[[Richelieu, or The Conspiracy]]'' (Bulwer-Lytton).
 
 
 
1850: Repeated (by special request, and now cited under its proper title and correctly attributed to Webster) by [[Captain Hall's Company]])  in Cape Town  on 29 May, as an afterpiece to ''[[The Lancers]]'' (Payne) and ''[[A Lover by Proxy! or My Daughter Sir!]]'' (Planché).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
Google Books[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/My_Young_Wife_and_My_Old_Umbrella_A_Farc.html?id=G28ZMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]
 
 
 
 
 
Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_2659511]
 
 
 
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Webster,_Benjamin_Nottingham_(DNB00)
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp 398
 
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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