Who's Who? or The Double Imposture

Who's Who? or The Double Imposture is a farce by John Poole (1786–1872)[1].

The original text

First performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury lane and published by Wittingham and Arliss in 1815.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1846: Performed on Thursday 20 August, probably by All the World's a Stage, in the Victoria Theatre in Hoop Street, with The Village Lawyer (Macready) as afterpiece and the interlude Fortune's Frolic.

Sources

Facsimile version of the 1816 edition of the text, Google E-book[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poole_(playwright)

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 184

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is a farce in two acts by John Poole (1786-1872)[4]

The original text

First performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1815. Published by Whittingham and Arliss, London, in the same year. A second edition published in 1816.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1871: Performed as Who's Who by a regimental "Dramatic Club" (the sources are unclear about the precise name of the company, it was possibly an outflow of - or a company founded in affiliation with - the Cape Town Institute and Club's dramatic company) in the Theatre Royal, Main Barracks, Cape Town, on 6 May, with Slasher and Crasher (Morton) and Sarah's Young Man (Suter).