The Stranger

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A drama in five acts, and English version of Menschenhass und Reue ("Misanthropy and Repentance") by August von Kotzebue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

The original German written in 1789–90.

The Englishe version first performed under the title The Stranger at the Drury Lane Theatre, London in 1798.

The play was an immense success in the English version, in both England and the United States, and the play is seen by many as one of the harbingers of the wave of popularity enjoyed by the melodrama in the nineteenth century.

Performance history in South Africa

1825: Performed on 11 June by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre, Cape Town with 20 percent, or My Father as afterpiece.

1855: Performed by G.V. Brooke and company in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, on Tuesday 9 January 1855, with The Angel of the Attic (J.M. Morton) as afterpiece.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Kotzebue

Bosman, 1928: pp. 200

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