No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi

No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi is a farce in one act by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[1].

Also known as No. 23, John Street, Adelphi; No. 23 John Street, Adelphi; John Street, Adelphi; and A Card! 23 John Street, Adelphi.

The original text

First performed as A Card! 23 John Street, Adelphi on 21 November 1826 in the Adelphi Theatre, London, and published as No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi in Dicks' standard plays ; no. 842 and by John Cumberland. (Cumberland's Minor Theatre, 1825)

South African productions

1847: Performed on 2 June by the 90th Light Infantry in the Amateur Theatre, Cape Town, with the farce The Red Rover, or The Mutiny of the Dolphin (Fitzball)

1847: Performed for the benefit of the Regimental School on 7 July by the 90th Light Infantry in the Amateur Theatre, Cape Town, with The Wreck Ashore (Buckstone) and "A Serio-Comic Burlesque on the Tent Scene" in Richard III (Shakespeare)

Sources

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/john-street-adelphi-a-farce-in-two-acts/author/buckstone-john-baldwin/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone

Allardyce Nicoll. 1930. A History of Early Ninteenth Century Drama 1800-1850 Vol II Cambridge University Press[2]

James Fenimore Cooper, The Red Rover: A Tale (edited by Thomas Philbrick and Marianne Philbrick) SUNY Press, 1991[3]

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 396

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