Difference between revisions of "The Two Gregories, or "Where Did the Money Come From?""

From ESAT
Jump to navigation Jump to search
 
Line 1: Line 1:
''[[The Two Gregories, or "Where Did the Money Come From?"]]'' is a "Ballad Farce" by Thomas Dibdin (1771–1841)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_John_Dibdin].
+
#REDIRECT[[Jocrisse-maître et Jocrisse-valet]]
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
Based on Charles Augustin Sewrin's  '''''[[Jocrisse-maître et Jocrisse-valet]]''''', a French one act comedy,  first produced at the Théâtre des Variétés-Panoramas, Paris,  on 29 October, 1810 and published by Masson in 1810.
 
 
 
Dibdin's English text performed at the Surrey Theatre, London, in 1821. Published for the Proprietor, at Roach's Old Established Library, 1821.
 
 
 
==South African productions ==
 
 
 
1833: Performed in the [[African Theatre]] in Hope Street, Cape Town by the [[All the World's a Stage]] on 3 August, (under the slightly inaccurate title of ''[[The Two Gregorys, or Where Does the Money Come From?]]'') with ''[[The Inchcape Bell, or The Dumb Sailor Boy]]'' (Fitzball) and a vaudeville act  on the "slack rope" by [[Monsieur Dupree]].
 
 
 
 
 
1835: Performed as ''[[The Two Gregories, or "Where Did the Money Come From?"|The Two Gregories]]'' in [[The Amateur Theatre]], Cape Town on 11 March by the [[Private Amateur Company]], with  ''[[A Cure for the Heartache]]'' (Morton). The evening was "(F)or the benefit of the Sufferers of the Caffer Irruption".
 
 
 
==Sources==
 
 
 
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocrisse
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1810 edition of ''[[Jocrisse-maître et Jocrisse-valet]]'', Google E-Book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=QBQ6AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=Jocrisse-ma%C3%AEtre+et+Jocrisse-valet.&source=bl&ots=IHhCyR15xr&sig=89ZKu8JraWvurC-bpFII2-huk48&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi76vvYqY3KAhWGuRoKHcesB4EQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=Jocrisse-ma%C3%AEtre%20et%20Jocrisse-valet.&f=false]
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1821 edition of ''[[The Two Gregories, or "Where Did the Money Come From?"]]'', Google E-Book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=L0lgAAAAcAAJ&dq=The+Two+Gregorys+by+Dibdin&hl=af&source=gbs_navlinks_s]
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 227 
 
 
 
Go to the [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
== Return to ==
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]
 
 
 
Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]
 
 
 
Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]
 
 
 
Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]
 
 
 
Return to [[Main Page]]
 

Latest revision as of 05:31, 11 July 2017