Urgent Private Affairs

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Urgent Private Affairs is a play by Joseph S. Coyne (1803-1868)[1].

Also known as Urgent Private Affairs, or The Loyal Volunteers

The original text

First performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, 7 January 1856. Published as Volume 24 van Lacy's acting edition by T.H. Lacy, London, in 1856.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1858: Performed at the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, by the Cape Town Dramatic Club as Urgent Private Affairs, or The Loyal Volunteers on 2 July, with Plot and Passion, or The Female Gambler (Taylor and Lang).

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stirling_Coyne

Facsimile version of the Lacy edition of 1856, The Internet Archive[2]

The Adephi Theatre Project, 1856[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.


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