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''[[The Workman]]'' is a play by Edward Towers ()[].
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#REDIRECT [[The Workman, or The Shadow on the Hearth]]
 
 
''[[The Workman, or The Shadow on the Hearth]]'' is a drama in five acts by Frank Harvey
 
 
 
Also known simply as ''[[The Workman]]''
 
 
 
Originally acted at Theatre Royal, Sunderland, 10th May, 1880.
 
 
 
Performed for the first time in the Australian colonies on October 4 1884 as ''[[The Workman]]'' at the Princess Theatre Melbourne.
 
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1887: A play called ''[[The Workman]]'' (ascribed to Edward Towers by Boonzaier, 1923) was performed as part of the repertoire of  the [[Wheeler Theatre Company]] when they played in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town during  April and May. Probably directed by [[Sutton Vane]].
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
 
 
The Era Almanack (Publisher Era, 1880), p.83
 
[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=cSoLAAAAIAAJ&q=Workman++a+comedy+by+E.+Towers&dq=Workman++a+comedy+by+E.+Towers&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje_u74ue_hAhX4VRUIHVOXD-8Q6AEIKDAA]
 
 
 
''The Theatre'', Volume 14 (Wyman & Sons, 1885, p. 41 [https://books.google.co.za/books?id=nTUwZFmcfJkC&pg=PA41&dq=The+Workman+by+Frank+Harvey&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiw-t_cu-_hAhWFsXEKHW2QBp0Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Workman%20by%20Frank%20Harvey&f=false]
 
 
 
[[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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|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]]: p. 384
 
 
 
 
 
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