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1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on  
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1862: Performed as ''[[The Maid of the Mill]]'' by [[Clara Tellett]] and her company  in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 2 August,  with  ''[[Love in Humble Life]]''(Scribé/Payne) and  ''[[A Perfect Cure]]'' (Sapte).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 04:56, 6 August 2020

The Maid of the Mill is a comic opera by Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733-1808)[1]

The original text

Written and performed in 1765 as The Maide of the Mill, with music by Samuel Arnold and others.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1862: Performed as The Maid of the Mill by Clara Tellett and her company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 2 August, with Love in Humble Life(Scribé/Payne) and A Perfect Cure (Sapte).

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.131,

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