Our Trip to the Rhine

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Our Trip to the Rhine is a comic sketch by George Isaacs ()[]

Also found simply as Trip to the Rhine.



Written specifically to suit the various skills of the popular British actress Joyce Egerton by George Isaacs in 1864. It was performed by Joyce Egerton and George Case (Mrs Case and Mr Case), opening in Melbourne in late 1864 and opened in Adelaide in March 1865. It would become Isaacs's most succesfull stage work, performed all over the world.


1878: Presented by Disney Roebuck as a benefit for Joyce Egerton, and featuring herself and her husband, George Case, in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 16 August. Also performed were two sketches by Sutton Vane, Christopher Colly-wobble and The Old Cane Chair.




Philip Butterss. 2013. Adelaide: a literary city. University of Adelaide Press: pp.48-9[1]