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Revision as of 07:14, 23 April 2014

A "serio-comic" drama in one act by Thomas Morton (1803-1879), though it is possibly a play by, or written and/or produced in association with, his son, J.M. Morton. Published in 1843 by Thomas Hailes Lacy, and first produced at the Princess's Theatre, May 27, 1843.

However, there is also another play with a similar name, written by William Bayle Bernard (1807-1875), which was apparently produced in London at the same time: Louison, The Angel of the Attic, or, The Recompense (in its turn possibly based on a play by Scribe). It is also described as "a seriocomic drama in one act", was published in London by J. Dicks, in the series "Dicks' standard plays" (no. 710) and first produced at the Haymarket Theatre, May 20th, 1843. (See the Catalogue of the National Library of Ireland[1])


Performance history in South Africa

Performed by G.V. Brooke and company in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, on Tuesday 9 January 1855, as afterpiece to The Stranger (Kotzebue/Sheridan). Featured were Miss Cathcart, Mr R. Younge and Captain Hall. (Recorded as "by J.M. Morton" by the Monitor newspaper, as cited in Bosman 1928: p411)

Performed in the Theatre Royal in Cape Town on 2 and 4 February 1878.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://www.amazon.com/The-Angel-Attic-Thomas-Morton/dp/B004B96PI2

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Morton,_Thomas_(1764-1838)_(DNB00)

Bosman, 1928: pp. 411

Bosman, F.C.L., 1980: pp.


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