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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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Performed at the Chatham Theatre, America, on Friday, August 1, 1845
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Publsihed
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1900, J. Dicks
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:20, 9 December 2019

The Old Guard is a play by Dion Boucicault ()[].

The original text

Performed at the Chatham Theatre, America, on Friday, August 1, 1845


Publsihed 1900, J. Dicks

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1893: Performed as La Cigale in the Opera House Cape Town by the Lyric Opera Company, with Leonora Braham and Grant Fallowes in the leading roles. (D.C. Boonzaier, cited by Bosman, 1980 (p. 398), refers to the play as an "opera").

Sources

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.203-205

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