Cirrus@Austlit

More than one adaptation of L'Auberge des Adréts was created for the English stage. Productions of Robert Macaire begin appearing regularly in playhouses in the Australian colonies from 1842 onwards. (See, for instance, a review in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 3 March 1842: 2). It is likely that many of these colonial productions would have been the adaptation written by Charles Selby (but see also the AustLit record for Robert Macaire, performed at the Varieties Theatre on 5 and 7 December 1868, advertised as 'never before produced in the colonies'.)

Selby's adaptation was first performed in England in 1835. Further adaptations were written by C. Simpson and J. P. Simpson (1867) and Henry James Byron (1870).