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Also found as '''''[[The Talk of the Town, or Agnes Bramber]]'''''
 
Also found as '''''[[The Talk of the Town, or Agnes Bramber]]'''''
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'''Not to be confused with the musical comedy ''[[The Talk of the Town]]'' by Ginny Redington and Tom Dawes'''.
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==

Revision as of 06:20, 21 June 2021

The Talk of the Town is a comedy by the actor and playwright Albert Edwin Drinkwater (1851–1923)[]

Also found as The Talk of the Town, or Agnes Bramber


Not to be confused with the musical comedy The Talk of the Town by Ginny Redington and Tom Dawes.

The original text

First performed as The Talk of the Town in Cork on 4 December, 1896 and as The Talk of the Town, or Agnes Bramber in Bath


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1905: Performed by the Sass-Nelson Musical Comedy Company in the Opera House, Cape Town, in February, featuring William Cromwell and Chrissie Leonard.

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

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p. 351 [1]

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