Whitebait at Greenwich

Whitebait at Greenwich is a play in one act by Morton ()[]

The original text

First performed at the City Theatre, Monday, October 8th, 1841, under the management of Cockerton and Shepard.

Published as Vol LXXXVII by Thomas Hailes Lacy (probably 1869), as issue 514 of Dicks' Standard Plays by John Dicks, London (1884), and as Issue 1294 of French's Acting Editions (ca. 1900).

Performance history in South Africa

1877: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 6 November, with The Beggar's Petition, or A Father's Love and A Mother's Care (Pitt).

Sources

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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