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''[[The Old Chateau, or A Night of Peril]]'' is a play in 3 acts by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stirling_Coyne]

==The original text==

First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London on 24 July 1854, and published by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]] in 1854.

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1862: Performed as ''[[The Old Chateau, or A Night of Peril]]'' by [[Clara Tellett]] and her company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 26 June, with ''[[Hunting a Turtle]]'' (Selby).

1862: Performed by [[Clara Tellett]] and her company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 7 July, with as ''[[Take Care of Dowb]]'' (Morton).

== Sources ==

http://victorian.nuigalway.ie/modx/index.php?id=81

https://theatricalia.com/play/1sh/old-chateau-the-or-a-night-of-peril/production/4m6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stirling_Coyne

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.131, 135

Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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