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+ | Cited by Robert Leach (2018)[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=ePmADwAAQBAJ&pg=PT136&lpg=PT136&dq=Statue+Blanch+a+pantomime&source=bl&ots=VBfCXaNgF2&sig=ACfU3U0D_vEzqy9KXAUyIsk2mNP_0Lu8gA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjs7Z-mzonxAhW_QkEAHTonAmwQ6AEwGHoECBkQAw#v=onepage&q=Statue%20Blanch%20a%20pantomime&f=false] as an example of the sexually explicit and bawdy comedy of the usual gaff piece, mixing "ballet", with chances to use Pantaloon and Clown. | ||
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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− | Robert Leach. 2018. ''An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance: Volume Two - From the Industrial Revolution to the Digital Age''. London: Routledge, p.94 | + | Robert Leach. 2018. ''An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance: Volume Two - From the Industrial Revolution to the Digital Age''. London: Routledge, p.94. |
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) | [[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.) |
Revision as of 05:47, 9 June 2021
Statue Blanche, or Harlequin and the Magic Cross was a 19th century "gaff"[] pantomime.
Contents
The original text
Cited by Robert Leach (2018)[1] as an example of the sexually explicit and bawdy comedy of the usual gaff piece, mixing "ballet", with chances to use Pantaloon and Clown.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
Robert Leach. 2018. An Illustrated History of British Theatre and Performance: Volume Two - From the Industrial Revolution to the Digital Age. London: Routledge, p.94.
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
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