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| − | ''[[The Octoroon]]'' is a melodrama by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 the love between a white man and an octoroon girl, first staged in 1859 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City.
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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]].
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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 and 14 February, with ''[[An April Fool]]'' (Halliday and Brough).
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| − | 1867: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 16 February, with ''[[Mrs Green's Snug Little Business]]'' (Cheltnam) as afterpiece.
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| − | 1868: Act 3 of the play performed in the old [[Oddfellows Hall]] Cape Town by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] Company on 14 May along with ''[[The Lady and the Devil]]'' (Clarence) and ''[[A Comical Countess]]'' (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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| − | 1884-5: Performed by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s first season as lessee and manager of the venue.
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| − | 1914 - Performed at the [[Palladium Theatre]], Johannesburg, opening on 5 October 1914. Produced by [[Edward Vincent]], the cast included [[Ethel Bracewell]], [[Stephen Scanlan]], [[Austin Milroy]], [[Shelagh Conway]], [[Florence Creagh]], [[Frank Lynne]], [[Dick Cruikshanks]], [[Herbert Lewis]], [[Cecil De Lee]] and [[Martha Rowson]].
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octoroon
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| − | Rand Daily Mail, 6 October 1914
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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. 204-207, 210, 221-3, 294, 322-335, 339-351, 366, 380
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