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1902: Performed as ''[[The Prodigal Daughter]]'' by a company featuring the popular British comedian [[Harry Nichols]], under the management of [[Leonard Rayne]].
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1902: Performed as ''[[The Prodigal Daughter]]'' by a company featuring the popular British comedian [[Harry Nichols]], under the management of [[Leonard Rayne]]. (According to Bosman this was by "G. Mcdonough", but this is surely an error, confusing the play with Mdonouugh's drama ''[[The Prodigal Father]]'', ()
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 07:16, 1 July 2020

The Prodigal Daughter can refer to a number of plays, and a large number of novels and films:

The Prodigal Daughter by Augustus Harris and Henry Pettitt (1892)

The Prodigal Daughter by G. Mcdonough ()[]

Prodigal Daughter by J. E. Franklin (1975)

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1902: Performed as The Prodigal Daughter by a company featuring the popular British comedian Harry Nichols, under the management of Leonard Rayne. (According to Bosman this was by "G. Mcdonough", but this is surely an error, confusing the play with Mdonouugh's drama The Prodigal Father, ()

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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