The Ladies' Club

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The Ladies' Club is a burletta in two acts by Mark Lemon (1809-1870)[1] and William Cullenford.


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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