The Two Gregories, or "Where Did the Money Come From?"

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The Two Gregories, or "Where Did the Money Come From?" is a "Ballad Farce' by Thomas Dibdin (1771 – 16 September 1841) [1].

The original text

Based on Charles A. Sewrin's Jocrisse-maître et Jocrisse-valet, a one act comedy by Charles A. Sewrin, 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 13 July, with The Inchcape Bell, or The Dumb Sailor Boy (Fitzball) and a vaudeville act on the "slack rope" by Monsieur Dupree.

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1810 edition of Jocrisse-maître et Jocrisse-valet, Google E-Book[2]

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[3]: pp. 226-7

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