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''[[The Money Spinner]]'' is a comedy in two acts by Arthur Wing Pinero ()[].  
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''[[The Money Spinner]]'' is a comedy in two acts by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)[].  
  
  

Revision as of 05:12, 28 September 2020

The Money Spinner is a comedy in two acts by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)[].


The original text

Published by Samuel French

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1886: Performed by Madame Pearmain and her company in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town, as part of a season of plays she put on there in the last quarter of the year. Emily Levettez played "Milicent Boycott", a role she had created for the first performance of the play in London, according to Boonzaier (1923).

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.203-205

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