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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
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1885: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town (run by [[H.C. Sidney]] and [[H.J. Fiedler]]).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 21:50, 18 April 2018

The Black Flag, or Escaped from Portland is a play by Henry Pettitt (1848–1893)[1].

Also referred to at times as Black Flag, or Escaped from Portland.

The original text

First performed at the Grecian Theatre, London, on 9 August, 1879.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1885: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town (run by H.C. Sidney and H.J. Fiedler).

Sources

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 5, Part 2 p. 521, Google E-book[2] By

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 1923. (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.

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