The New Clown

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

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


The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, 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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