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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1859: Performed as ''[[Slasher and Crasher]]'' by the [[Charles Fraser]] and his company in Cape Town with ''[[Ben Bolt]]'' (Johnstone) on 3 May.  
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1859: Performed as ''[[Slasher and Crasher]]'' by the [[Charles Fraser]] and his company in Cape Town with ''[[Ben Bolt]]'' (Johnstone) on 3 May.
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1861: Performed as ''[[Slasher and Crasher]]'' on the Eastern Cape Border by the regimentals drama company known as the [[Amateurs of the Band]] on June 5, featuring . The evening also included two more plays, ''[[The Spectre Bridegroom, or A Ghost in spite of Himself ]]' and ''[[Poses-De-Vaux]]'' (Anon.).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:53, 12 July 2018

Slasher and Crasher! is a farce in one act by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)[1].

Also found as Slasher and Crasher

The original text

First performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, in 1848 and published numerous times, inter alia by William Taylor & Company, 1849, Issue 31 of The Minor drama (Samuel French, 1849), M. Douglas, 1850, Duncombe and Moon, 1852, Lacy's acting edition no. 110 (Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1860) and so on.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1859: Performed as Slasher and Crasher by the Charles Fraser and his company in Cape Town with Ben Bolt (Johnstone) on 3 May.


1861: Performed as Slasher and Crasher on the Eastern Cape Border by the regimentals drama company known as the Amateurs of the Band on June 5, featuring . The evening also included two more plays, The Spectre Bridegroom, or A Ghost in spite of Himself ' and Poses-De-Vaux (Anon.).

Sources

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012436226

https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2314780

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Morton,_John_Maddison_(DNB00)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 124,

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