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''[[The Beaux' Stratagem]]'' is a comedy by George Farquhar (1677-1707)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Farquhar].
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#REDIRECT[[The Beaux' Stratagem]]
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
First produced at the Theatre Royal in the Haymarket, London, on March 8, 1707.
 
 
 
== Translations and adaptations ==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== Productions in South Africa ==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
First produced at the Queen's Theatre, now the site of Her Majesty's Theatre, in the Haymarket, London, in March 1707.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
 
 
1807: First produced in South Africa on the 8th of August by the [[Garrison Players]] in the [[African Theatre]] in Cape Town,  with '' [[The Old Maid]]'' (Murphy)as afterpiece, an interlude written by [[Captain Frazer]] and spoken by [[Mr Napier]] in the role of "Cherry", and an Epilogue written and spoken by [[Captain Frazer]] as "Mrs Sullen".
 
 
 
 
1966: Produced by [[PACT]], directed by [[François Swart]], with [[Siegfried Mynhardt]], [[John Whiteley]], [[Ronald Wallace]], [[Arthur Hall]], [[Kerry Jordan]], [[Maureen McAllister]] and [[Shirley Firth]].
 
 
 
1967: Produced by [[CAPAB]], opening at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] on 1 July. Directed by [[Roy Sargeant]], with [[Michael Atkinson]], [[Norman Ettlinger]], [[Peter Curtis]], [[Phillip Boucher]], [[Norman Coombes]], [[Joey Wishnia]], [[Roger Dwyer]], [[Ken Leach]], [[David Goatham]], [[Elliot Playfair]], [[Yvonne Bryceland]], [[Valerie Miller]], [[Jeanne Wennberg]], [[Gillian Garlick]] and [[Pat Armstrong]]. Set designed by [[Keith Anderson]], costumes designed by [[Stephen de Villiers]].
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beaux'_Stratagem
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Farquhar
 
 
 
[[Wilhelm Grütter| Grütter, Wilhelm]], [[CAPAB]] 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research. p 59.
 
 
 
''The Beaux' Stratagem'' theatre programme (CAPAB, 1967).
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 72,
 
 
 
 
 
Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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