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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 and 6 July, with ''[[The Wandering Minstrel]]'' (Mayhew).
 
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 and 6 July, with ''[[The Wandering Minstrel]]'' (Mayhew).
  
1884: Performed as  ''[[Not Such a Fool as He Looks]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by the [[Henry Harper]] and his company as part of a fine season of plays that opened in June, with [[H.C. Sidney]] as an excellent "Sir Simon Simple", according to the memoires of [[D.C. Boonzaier|Boonzaier]] ().
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1884: Performed as  ''[[Not Such a Fool as He Looks]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by the [[Henry Harper]] and his company as part of a fine season of plays that opened in June, with [[H.C. Sidney]] as an excellent "Sir Simon Simple", according to the memoires of [[D.C. Boonzaier|Boonzaier]] (1923).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:18, 10 November 2020

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

The original text

Translations and adaptations

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 and 6 July, with The Wandering Minstrel (Mayhew).

1884: Performed as Not Such a Fool as He Looks in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by the Henry Harper and his company as part of a fine season of plays that opened in June, with H.C. Sidney as an excellent "Sir Simon Simple", according to the memoires of Boonzaier (1923).

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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