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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
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1858: Performed in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 11 May by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]], with ''[[Medea, or the Best of Mothers with a Brute of a Husband]]'' (Brough), with a "Highland Fling" by an amateur. .
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1858: Performed in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 11 May by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]], with ''[[Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband]]'' (Brough), with a "Highland Fling" by an amateur. .
  
 
1858: Performed in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 18 May by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]], with ''[[Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband]]''  (Brough), in addition to a "Highland Fling" by an amateur and a "song in character" by [[J.E.H. English]].  
 
1858: Performed in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 18 May by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]], with ''[[Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband]]''  (Brough), in addition to a "Highland Fling" by an amateur and a "song in character" by [[J.E.H. English]].  

Revision as of 04:34, 2 June 2018

Still Waters Run Deep is a play by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[1]

The original text

First produced on stage at the Royal Olympic Theatre on May 14, 1855, and published in New York by C. T. De Witt in 1877

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1858: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 11 May by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband (Brough), with a "Highland Fling" by an amateur. .

1858: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 18 May by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband (Brough), in addition to a "Highland Fling" by an amateur and a "song in character" by J.E.H. English.

1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 23 September by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with The Cure (Anon.), the latter play performed jointly as the Cape Town and Royal Alfred Dramatic Club.

Sources

https://idiomation.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/still-waters-run-deep/

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

Facsimile version of the 1877 text by De Witt, The Internet Archive[2]

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

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