The Flying Scud, or A Four-legged Fortune

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The Flying Scud, or A Four-legged Fortune is an equestrian melodrama by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)[1].

Often simply called The Flying Scud.

The original text

Performed in London at The Holborn Theatre on 6 October 1866, and published by in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1878: Performed in the Theatre Royal on 30 January by Disney Roebuck and his company, featuring "real horses". It was presented with The Area Belle (Brough and Halliday).

Sources

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Flying_Scud_or_A_Four_legged_Fortune.html?id=dmqnnQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y

David Mayer. 2004. "Encountering Melodrama", In: Kerry Powell (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre, Cambridge University Press:pp.158-162[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Boucicault

A List of Dion Boucicault's Major Dramatic Works, The Victoriam Web[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 365

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