My Young Wife and my Old Umbrella

A Farce, in One Act by Benjamin Webster. Adapted from the French play Ma Femme et mon Parapluie, by M. Laurencin, (I.e. P.A. Chapelle].

English text first performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 23 June 1837, starring the author, and published 1837.

First published in London by .

Performance history in South Africa

Performed, (possibly under the title My New Wife and my Old Umbrella, and attributed to R.B. Peake) by the Garrison Players ( a group locally known as Captain Hall's Company) in Cape Town on 8 May 1850, as an afterpiece to Richelieu, or The Conspiracy (Bulwer-Lytton).

Sources

Google Books[1]

Catalyst, Johns Hopkins Libraries[2]

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

Bosman, 1928: pp 398

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