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The Rifle and How to Use It is a farce in two acts by J.V. Bridgeman
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#REDIRECT[[The Rifle and How to Use It]]
 
 
(London: Thomas Hailes Lacy, [1859] n.d.).
 
 
 
''[[The British Volunteers]]'' in South Africa and ''[[The Rino, and How to Use It]]'' in Australia.
 
 
 
Apparently also known as
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
According to ''The Argus'', Melbourne, a play referred to as ''[[The Rino, and How to Use It]]'', featuring the exact same characters, was performed at , at the Pantheon Theatre, Cremorne Gardens, Melbourne on 16 January, 1860. It had apparently opened at the Haymarket Theatre. London, in 1859 - but under which title is uncertain.
 
 
 
In South Africa it was apparently also performed under the title The British Volunteers
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1860: Performed as ''[[The British Volunteers]]'' (no author given) by the [[Amateurs of the Band]] on November 26 in the [[Garrison Theatre]] of Grahamstown or Keiskama Hoek on the Eastern Cape border. The cast consisted of [[W. Dansie]] (Mr Percival Floff), [[J. M'Kechnie]] (Mr Sydney Jubkins), [[T. Brooker]] (Alfred Charles Mutton, a policeman), [[W. Allan]] (Pad), [[M. Rafferty]] (Mrs Percival Floff), [[J. F. Gay]] (Mrs Sydney Jubkins), [[J. Durney]] (Mary). Also performed were  ''[[The Review, or The Wags of Windsor]]'' and ''[[The Wandering Minstrel]]''
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
S.J. Shapiro. ‎2011 ''The British Army in Home Defense, 1844-1871: Militia and Volunteers in a Liberal Era'' Unpublished PhD dissertation, Graduate School of The Ohio State University[https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1314979500&disposition=inline] 
 
 
 
North Lincoln Sphinx Vol 1, No 4. Christmas, 1860.
 
 
 
Advertisement, ''The Argus'' (Melbourne), Wednesday January 18, I860: p. 4.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5695581]
 
 
 
[[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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