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==The original text==
 
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Written and first performed in 1889,
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:22, 13 July 2020

The Middleman is a play by Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929)[1]

The original text

Written and first performed in 1889,

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1909: Produced by Leonard Rayne and his company, featuring Edward Vincent as "Cyrus Blenkarn". It was part of their repertoire of four plays, opening at the Standard Theatre, Johannesburg, and then touring the various cities, including a performances at the Opera House, Cape Town, in October.

Sources

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

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.431

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