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[[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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
[[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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

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The Liars is a play by Henry Arthur Jones ( 1851–1929)[1]

The original text

A Victorian "society" drama about the dangers of flirting, it was first performed at the Criterion Theatre, London, in October of 1897 and in the USA in 1898. The text was first published in 1901.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1902-3: Performed by Leonard Rayne at the Opera House, Cape Town, under the auspices of the Mouillot-De Jong Company, as part of a season of musical comedy and light opera beginning in December of 1902 and running into 1903.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Liars_(play)


https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/U273024/Mr-H-A-Joness-New-Play-The-Liars-at-the-Criterion-Theatre?t=0&q=London+street&c=45&n=759

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 1923. (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.

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