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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 05:29, 11 June 2020
The Ladies' Club is a burletta in two acts by Mark Lemon (1809-1870)[1] and William Cullenford.
Contents
The original text
A parody on the "Woman's Rights" movement,
Published in London by J. Pattie, in Pattie's Universal Stage (Vol 1, no. 9), 1840.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1867: Performed by Mrs Duret and the female actresses of the company by the Le Roy-Duret Company company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 10 October, with Crossing the Line, or Crowded Houses (Almar, the play fancifully billed as †ing the ———) and a dance by Miss Clara.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lemon
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.230, 234
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