Une Chambre pour Deux
There are two French plays by this name:
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Une Chambre pour Deux by Edmond-Frédéric Prieur, (??-1849)[1] and Aristide Letorzec (fl. 1840s)[2]
The original text
A skit about two men who occupy the same room without being aware of each other's existence, having been tricked by their landlady. Originally known as Allons à la Chaumière a vaudeville in 1 act, first performed in Paris, at the Théâtre Porte Saint-Martin, 1st of December, 1839.
Translations and adaptations
Translated and adapted into English as The Double-Bedded Room by J.M. Morton (1811-1891)[3]
The English play was in its turn re-translated into French by Charles Varin and Charles Lefèvre and called Une Chambre à Deux Lits (1846).
There are some critics who see the original French play as a source for both Morton's version of it as well as his most famous play, Box and Cox (1847)
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
https://books.google.co.za/books?id=0EM6AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Une Chambre pour Deux by Caroline Steinberg
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205
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