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''[[The Talk of the Town]]'' is a comedy by Albert Drinkwater ()[] Albert Edwin Drinkwater (1851–1923)
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''[[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]]'''''
 
Also found as '''''[[The Talk of the Town, or Agnes Bramber]]'''''

Revision as of 05:38, 7 May 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

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

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

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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