Number One, Round the Corner

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Number One, Round the Corner is a one act farce by William Brough (1826-1870)[1]

Also found as No. 1 Round the Corner

The original text

Licence sent 7 March for performance at the Theatre Royal Lyceum on 9 March 1854 (the stipulation made that the phrase "Oh Lord!" be omitted). Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy, in 1856 (as vol. 14, no. 199). https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/dramaandtheatre/documents/pdf/lcp/playslicensedin1854.pdf

First performed at the Theatre Royal Lyceum, London, on 12 March, 1854 and Also published in French's Minor Drama (no. 193) and Spencer's Boston Theatre: a collection of scarce acting tragedies, comedies, dramas, farces and burlettas (vol. 7, no. 52),

Advertised as No. 1 Round the Corner (no author given) and called a "good two character piece" in a listing of "Plays suitable for private performances" in The Illustrated Queen Almanac and Lady's Calendar for 1881 (p.62).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1877: Performed as No. 1 Round the Corner in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 25 October, as an afterpiece to Blow for Blow (Byron).

1889: Performed as No. 1 Round the Corner in the Exhibition Theatre, Cape Town, by Luscombe Searelle's company as part of a season of plays featuring Lionel Brough (brother of the author) and put on during the second half of the year. The season was not a success.

Sources

"Brough, William 1826-1870", WorldCat Identities[2]

Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852-1866. January-March 1854, Royal Holloway University, London [3]

The Illustrated Queen Almanac and Lady's Calendar for 1881 (p.62), Google E-book[4]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.362, 388

William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.

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