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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
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1876: Performed as  ''[[Not Such a Fool as He Looks]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], Burg Street,  Cape Town, by the [[Disney Roebuck]] company on 4 July, with ''[[The Wandering Minstrel]]'' (Selby).
  
1876: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:10, 10 November 2020

Not Such a Fool as He Looks is a farcial drama in three acts by Henry J. Byron ()[].

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Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed as Not Such a Fool as He Looks in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town, by the Disney Roebuck company on 4 July, with The Wandering Minstrel (Selby).


Sources

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.203-205

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