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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:04, 10 May 2020

The New Clown is a play by H.M. Paull ()[].

The original text

A play about a Lord thinks he has killed a man and becomes a clown in a touring circus.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1903: Performed as his debut appearance in South Africa by James Welch and his company in the Opera House, Cape Town, and then taken on tour of South Africa, before returning for another on

Sources

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007124/plotsummary?ref_=tt_stry_pl

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.412, 417

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