Vice Versa (play)

Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers is a play by Edward Rose that adapted the 1882 novel of the same name by Thomas Anstey Guthrie. The play debuted at the Gaiety Theatre, London on 9 April 1883. The story is a fantasy about a body swap between a father and son. Rose played the son in the debut production; Charles Hawtrey played the father.[1]

Vice Versa
Written byEdward Rose
Based onVice Versa
by Thomas Anstey Guthrie
Date premieredApril 9, 1883 (1883-04-09)
Place premieredAstor Theatre
Original languageEnglish
GenreFantasy

Guthrie authorized Rose's adaptation,[2] but later decided to write his own stage version of the story, which debuted in 1910.[3]

References
  1. "Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers". The Theatre. 1 May 1883. p. 303.
  2. "Consecration of the Wolseley Lodge, No. 1993". The Freemason's Chronicle. 31 March 1883. p. 195.
  3. Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press.


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