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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on  
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1878: Performed as ''[[The Drawing-Room Floor]]'' by the [[Egerton and Case Company]] in the [[Athenaeum Hall]], Cape Town, on 8 August.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:50, 19 October 2019

There are two plays by this name


The Man in Possession by James Albery (1876)

The original text

Written by James Albery (1838–1889)[1], it opened at the Gaiety Theatre, London, on 4 December, 1876.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1878: Performed as The Drawing-Room Floor by the Egerton and Case Company in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, on 8 August.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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The Man in Possession by H.M Harwood (1930)

The original text

A play in three acts and an epilogue by Harold Marsh Harwood (1874–1959)[2], it opened on . Published in London by E. Benn in 1930.

Translations and adaptations

Twice filmed, in 1931 as The Man in Possession[3] by Sam Wood and in 1937 as Personal Property[4] by W.S. Van Dyke, with Jean Harlow and Robert Taylor. (The latter film also used the alternate title of The Man in Possession on occasion).

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/16007207?q&versionId=19508508

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_Possession

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Property_(film)


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