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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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| − | Also known as ''[[The British Volunteers]]'' in South Africa and ''[[The Rino, and How to Use It]]'' in Australia.
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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy, [1859] n.d.).
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| − | 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.
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| − | In South Africa it was apparently also performed under the title The British Volunteers
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 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]]''
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | S.J. Shapiro. 2011 ''The British Army in Home Defense, 1844-1871: Militia and Volunteers in a Liberal Era'' Unpublished PhD dissertation, Graduate School of The Ohio State University[https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1314979500&disposition=inline]
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| − | North Lincoln Sphinx Vol 1, No 4. Christmas, 1860.
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| − | Advertisement, ''The Argus'' (Melbourne), Wednesday January 18, I860: p. 4.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5695581]
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| − | [[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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