The Two Gregories, or "Where Did the Money Come From?"
The Two Gregories, or "Where Did the Money Come From?" is a "Ballad Farce" by Thomas Dibdin (1771–1841)[1].
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 Cape Town in the African Theatre 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
Sources
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocrisse
Facsimile version of the 1810 edition of Jocrisse-maître et Jocrisse-valet, Google E-Book[2]
Facsimile version of the 1821 edition of The Two Gregories, or "Where Did the Money Come From?", Google E-Book[3]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 227
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