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Revision as of 16:45, 25 October 2017

Robert Macaire, or The Roadside Inn Turned Inside Out is a burlesque extravaganza by Henry James Byron (1835-1884)[1]

Also known as Robert Macaire.

The original text

Founded on the French melodrama, it was first performed in English in the Royal Globe Theatre, London, on 16 April, 1870.

The English text published by Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1872 ([Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays. vol. 93.)


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1875. Produced by Disney Roebuck in the Bijou Theatre on 16 September, with Arrah-na-Pogue, or The Wicklow Wedding (Boucicault). The evening a farewell benefit for Mr Paulton and Mrs Paulton.


1877: Performed as in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 28 September by the Disney Roebuck company, with the burlesque Aladdin, or The Wonderful Woman (?)

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

Facsimile version of the 1872 English text, Google E-Book[2]

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