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[[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.) | ||
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Susan Hopley, or The Vicissitudes of a Servant Girl is a domestic drama, in three acts by George Dibdin Pitt (1799-1855)[1]
Also found as Susan Hopley, or The Trials of a Servant Girl.
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Royal Victoria Theatre, London, on 31 May, 1841 and again at the City of London in 1844.
Published by Davidson, 19 Peter's Hill, Doctors' Commons, between St. Paul's and Upper Thames Street, London, in 1845 (as no 147 of Cumberland's Minor Theatre).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1862: Performed by the non-commissioned officers and men of the 11th Regiment in the Garrison Theatre, Main Barracks, Cape Town, as Susan Hopley, or The Trials of a Servant Girl, with Two Heads are Better than One (Horne) on 25 July 1862.
Sources
Facsimile version of the , The Internet Archive[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dibdin_Pitt
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: p.167
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