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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
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This play was apparently a great favourite with the [[Garrison Players]] in the first half of the 19th century. 
  
 
6 July 1812: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] in the [[African Theatre]], as afterpiece to ''[[Speed the Plough]]'' (Th. Morton).
 
6 July 1812: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] in the [[African Theatre]], as afterpiece to ''[[Speed the Plough]]'' (Th. Morton).
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8 June 1836: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] in the [[African Theatre]], as afterpiece to ''[[The Flying Dutchman]]'' (Fitzball).
 
8 June 1836: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] in the [[African Theatre]], as afterpiece to ''[[The Flying Dutchman]]'' (Fitzball).
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4 August, 1848: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] ("the 6th Royal Regiment") in the [[Garrison Theatre]], as afterpiece to ''[[The Review, or The Wags of Windsor]]'' (Colman Jr).
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:50, 17 July 2014

Subtitled The Happy African. A farce in two acts by William MacReady (?1755-1829). First performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1792.Published 1793.



Performance history in South Africa

This play was apparently a great favourite with the Garrison Players in the first half of the 19th century.

6 July 1812: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to Speed the Plough (Th. Morton).

14 September 1822: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to The Point of Honour (Kemble) and the burlesque Amoroso, King of Little Britain (Planché).

4 October 1822: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to The Poor Gentleman (Colman Jr).

2 November 1824: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to The Poor Gentleman (Colman Jr). A benefit performance for Mrs Green and Mrs Johnson.

23 July 1831: Performed in Cape Town by All the World's a Stage in the Cape Town Theatre, as afterpiece to Richard the Third, or The Battle of Bosworth Field

8 June 1836: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre, as afterpiece to The Flying Dutchman (Fitzball).

4 August, 1848: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players ("the 6th Royal Regiment") in the Garrison Theatre, as afterpiece to The Review, or The Wags of Windsor (Colman Jr).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

Oxford Dictionary of British History: William Macready[1]

Free online E-Book, Google Books[2]

Bosman, 1928: pp. 216

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