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Revision as of 06:11, 23 June 2017
Speed the Plough is a comedy, in five acts by Thomas Morton (1764-1838)[1].
Not to be confused with Speed-the-Plow, a 1988 play by David Mamet
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First performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden on 8 Feb. 1798, it was acted forty-one times, and often revived.
The play introduced the fictional (off-stage) English character of "Mrs Grundy", who typifies the censorship enacted in everyday life by conventional opinion. The term soon passed into everyday English speech as a criterion of rigid respectability, especially in contexts in which free expression is impeded by excessive purity.
Performance history in South Africa
1812: Performed in Cape Town on 6 July by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, with The Irishman in London (Macready), with Lt Prescott and Lt Hanson listed as Directors for the evening.
1815: Performed in Cape Town on 23 September by the English Theatricals company (former Garrison Players) in the African Theatre, with The Prize, or 2,5,3,8, (Hoare).
1818: Performed in Cape Town on 7 February by the English Theatricals company (former Garrison Players) in the African Theatre , with The Spoiled Child (Bickerstaffe).
1822: Performed in Cape Town on 2 November by the Amateur Company company (Garrison Players) in the African Theatre, with Tom Thumb (Fielding). Fortune's Frolic (Allingham).
1826: Performed in Cape Town on 2 September by the (Garrison Players) in the African Theatre, with Sharp and Flat (Lawler), as a benefit for Mrs Johnson.
1827: Performed in Cape Town in May by the (Garrison Amateur Company) in the African Theatre, with the musical farce Love Laughs at Locksmiths (Colman Jr).
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton_(playwright)
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/559155/Speed-the-Plough
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 143, 147, 153, 189, 191
Go to ESAT Bibliography
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