The Dancing Scotchman
The Dancing Scotchman is the name of a comic dance performance or ballet created by the couple Richard Flexmore (1824-1860) and Francesca Auriol (1829-1862, also known as Francisca Auriol).
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The original text
Created, choreographed and danced at the Standard Theatre, London, by Flexmore and Auriol in 1854.
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Performance history in South Africa
1866: A "new and interesting ballet" called The Dancing Scotchman, or Love in all Corners was performed on the 20th of August by the Le Roy and Duret theatre company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, as afterpiece to a performance of Retribution (Taylor). It was most probably a work created by members of the British company, based on the earlier work by Flexmore and Auriol.
1866: Performed on the 23rd of August by the Le Roy and Duret theatre company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, as afterpiece to a performance of Plot and Passion (Taylor).
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 111, 115
Allan Stuart Jackson. 1993. The Standard Theatre of Victorian England. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: p. 118[1]
