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| − | ''[[The Octoroon]]'' is a melodrama by Dion Boucicault.
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| − | Also known as ''[[The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana]]''.
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| − | ==The original text==
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| − | A melodrama about a half-caste, it was written in 1859, it was first??*
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 22-23 May by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]], with ''[[The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana]]'' (Boucicault)
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| − | 1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 24 May by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]], with ''[[Bachelor's Buttons]]'' (Stirling), as a "complimentary Testimonial to the favourite artiste [[Mme. Duret]] by her Admirers".
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| − | 1867: Performed by "[[Le Roy's Original Company]]" in the [[Theatre Royal]], Harrington Street, Cape Town on 11 February, with ''[[An April Fool]]'' (Halliday and Brough).
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| − | 1876: Performed by the company of [[Disney Roebuck]] on May 6, 1876, as the opening production of his new [[Theatre Royal]], in Burg Street, Cape Town.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | ''World Drama'', by Allardyce Nicoll.
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.221
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| − | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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