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1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
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1905: Performed in the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, opening on 31 March with a company that included [[Maud Thorne]], [[Sybil Thorne]], [[Daisy Wallace]], [[Myles Clifton]] and [[Victor Gouriet]] in the cast.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:12, 3 December 2020

The Orchid is a musical play by J.T. Tanner

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Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1905: Performed in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, opening on 31 March with a company that included Maud Thorne, Sybil Thorne, Daisy Wallace, Myles Clifton and Victor Gouriet in the cast.

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.422, 425, 429, 438.

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