Oh! Susannah!

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Oh! Susannah! is comedy by Mark Ambient ()[].

Not to be confused with "Oh! Susanna", the popular minstrel song written by Stephen Foster (1847)

The original text

Written and performed in 1897

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1908: Performed in South Africa by the Leonard Rayne company, with a cast that included Naomi Rutherford.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_Susanna_(disambiguation)

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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