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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| − | Performed by the [[English Amateur Company]] in the [[African Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]] on 13 October, 1838, as afterpiece to Ambrose Guinett, or a Sea-Side Story (Jerrold). According to Bosman (1928)This was the last production to be mounted in the [[African Theatre]] and also the last by English amateurs in Cape Town till 1843. | + | Performed by the [[English Amateur Company]] in the [[African Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]] on 13 October, 1838, as afterpiece to ''[[Ambrose Guinett, or a Sea-Side Story]]'' (Jerrold). According to [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1928)This was the last production to be mounted in the [[African Theatre]] and also the last by English amateurs in Cape Town till 1843. |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 06:34, 22 May 2014
A farce in two acts by William Thomas (W.T.) Moncrieff(1794-1857). Founded on a story of the same name in The Sketch Book by Washington Irving (published under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in serial form 1819 and 1820).
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on July 2nd, 1821.
Published in London and New York in 1821
Performance history in South Africa
Performed by the English Amateur Company in the Cape Town Theatre on 13 October, 1838, as afterpiece to Ambrose Guinett, or a Sea-Side Story (Jerrold). According to Bosman (1928)This was the last production to be mounted in the African Theatre and also the last by English amateurs in Cape Town till 1843.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Copy of the text in the Internet Archive[1]
Copy of Samuel French text[2]
Bosman, 1928: p. 208
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