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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Described as "a play with music" that includes an Irish song and jig, it was performed as ''[[Sightless Bride]]'' at the New Bowery Theatre, New York, 22-23 August, 1864
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Described as "a play with music" that "includes an Irish song and jig", it was performed as ''[[Sightless Bride]]'' at the New Bowery Theatre, New York, 22-23 August, 1864
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 15:50, 26 September 2020

The Sightless Bride is a play by an Anonymous playwright.

Also found as Sightless Bride.


The original text

Described as "a play with music" that "includes an Irish song and jig", it was performed as Sightless Bride at the New Bowery Theatre, New York, 22-23 August, 1864

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed as The Sightless Bride in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town by Disney Roebuck's company, under the temporary management of C. Wilstone, on 27 July, with The Momentous Question (Fitzball).

Sources

https://www.musicingotham.org/event/52677

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.341, 346

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