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The 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 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.
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An English text entitled ''[[My Young Wife and my Old Umbrella]]'', was adapted from the French by  Benjamin Webster, and first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 23 June 1837, starring the adaptor,  and published 1837.
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 07:11, 18 June 2015

A one-act farce by Benjamin Webster.


The original text

The 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.


Translations and adaptations

An English text entitled My Young Wife and my Old Umbrella, was adapted from the French by Benjamin Webster, and 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[1]


Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[2]

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Webster,_Benjamin_Nottingham_(DNB00)

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[3]: p. 398

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