Une Chambre pour Deux

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There are two French plays by this name:

Une Chambre pour Deux by Prieur and Letorzec (1839)

The original text

Written by Edmond-Frédéric Prieur, (??-1849)[1] and Aristide Letorzec (fl. 1840s)[2], it is a skit about two men who occupy the same room without being aware of each other's existence, having been tricked by their landlady.

There are a few indirect references to a 19th century play of this name, but no text or programme for a performance has been found so far. It may perhaps be an alternative title for a vaudeville in 1 act called Allons à la Chaumière, written by the same authors and opening in Paris at the Théâtre Porte Saint-Martin on 1st of December, 1839. A published text for this play is available.

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 (2009)

Written by Caroline Steinberg and performed by her and , it is a skit about a man and a woman who have to share the same room because of an error by the concierge of the hotel.

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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