The Irish Emigrant

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The Irish Emigrant is a comic drama in two acts by John Brougham ()[]

Also found as The Irish Emigrant, or Temptation and Temptation, or the Irish Emigrant

The original text

Published in New York as Temptation: Or, The Irish Emigrant by Samuel French, 1856 (as French's American Drama. The Acting Edition. No. 20).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town by the Disney Roebuck company, under the management of C. Wilstone, on 17 October, with Lord Dundreary ().

1877: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 25 August, with Leah (Daly/Mosenthal).

Sources

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 1932. (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.343, 347, 359

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