The Sightless Bride

The Sightless Bride is a play by Henry James Byron (1835-1884)[1].

Also found as Sightless Bride and The Devil of Paris, or The 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. Performed as The Sightless Bride in the Metropolitan Theatre, California, on 2 November, 1870.

one attributed by 'N' to H.J. Byron and published by Lacy. (2); ... Two versions clipped together: a. signed by G.W. Gilbeigh. (ascribed by 'N' ... The playbill calls it a serious melodrama in 2 acts, ... The Devil of Paris, or the sightless bride. 1865.

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

Daily Alta California, Volume 22, Number 7530, 2 November 1870

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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