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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] theatre company in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town,  on 2nd August and billed as a "Great Comic ''[[Shadow Pantomime]]'', sensation from the Crystal Palace". Also performed were ''[[The Mutiny at the Nore]]'' (Jerrold) and ''[[On the Sly]]'' (Morton).
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1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] theatre company in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town,  on 2nd August, with ''[[The Mutiny at the Nore]]'' (Jerrold) and a "Great Comic ''[[Shadow Pantomime]]'', sensation from the Crystal Palace".  
  
1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] theatre company in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town,  on 6th  August along with ''[[Lilian Gervais]]'' (Barnett), a comic dance called ''[[Gocum and Lisbeth]]'' (Jerrold) and ''[[On the Sly]]'' (Morton).
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1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] theatre company in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town,  on 6th  August along with a ''[[Shadow Pantomime]]'' (Anon.), ''[[Lilian Gervais]]'' (Barnett), and a comic dance called ''[[Gocum and Lisbeth]]'' (Jerrold).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 20:14, 28 May 2019

On the Sly is a farce in one act by John Maddison Morton (1811–1891)[1].

Also found as On the Sly!.

The original text

First performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on October 24 in 1864.

Published by Ames in Clyde, Ohio [186-?]

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed by the Le Roy and Duret theatre company in the Theatre Royal in Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 2nd August, with The Mutiny at the Nore (Jerrold) and a "Great Comic Shadow Pantomime, sensation from the Crystal Palace".

1866: Performed by the Le Roy and Duret theatre company in the Theatre Royal in Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 6th August along with a Shadow Pantomime (Anon.), Lilian Gervais (Barnett), and a comic dance called Gocum and Lisbeth (Jerrold).

Sources

Facsimile version of the Ames edition of the text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[2]


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