The Mutiny at the Nore

The Mutiny at the Nore is a nautical drama in three acts by Douglas Jerrold ()[].

The original text

A play about the "Nore Mutiny" of 1797, it opened in London at the Pavilion Theatre on 7 June 1830, then at the Coburg Theatre and the Tottenham Street Theatre in the same year.

Published in London by J. Cumberland in the series English and American Drama of the Nineteenth Century, and by Davidson, London, probably in 1830(?).

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre on 2 August, with On the Sly (Morton) and what is billed as a "Great Comic Shadow Pantomime, sensation from the Crystal Palace". (Possibly a reference to something like the 1861 shadow pantomime put on by Nelson Lee in the Crystal Palace, London[1]).

1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre on 9 August, with Where's Your Wife (Bridgeman) and The Demon of the Forest (or Cassander a Cooper (?)

Sources

Facsimile version of the Davidson edition of 1830, The Internet Archive[2]

https://www.worldcat.org/title/mutiny-at-the-nore-a-nautical-drama-in-three-acts/oclc/794175869

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.211-212

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