Winning a Husband

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Winning a Husband is a burletta by John Baldwin Buckstone ()[].

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Performed as part of a programme "For the Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Plumer" at the Royal Pavilion Theatre (Whitechapel Road, London) on Saturday, 14 December 1833 ("for this night only"). The play was performed "with Mrs. Cramer Plumer in seven characters", and played along with an adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor ("based on a work by William Shakespeare") and the opera The Cabinet by Thomas Dibdin.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 13 April, and described as an "interesting Personation Comedietta". Performed as an afterpiece to Medea (Euripides).

Sources

Playbill for the Royal Pavilion's productions of: The merry wives of Windsor, based on a work by William Shakespeare; after which, various entertainments including the song "When the clash of arms" written and composed by Mr. Plumer; the burletta, Winning a husband [written by J.B. Buckstone], with Mrs. Cramer Plumer in seven characters; Songs and duets; and, the opera, The cabinet [by Thomas Dibdin].

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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