Potter-Bellew Company

The Potter-Bellew Company was a theatrical company founded in the 1890s by Kyrle Bellew and Cora Brown-Potter in New York, touring extensively for ten years.

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The company was brought out to South Africa in early 1892 by Luscombe Searelle and where they played scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Camille and Hamlet. They returned to England toward the end of February after the Exhibition Theatre in Cape Town burnt down, with all their costumes, just before a final performance of As You Like It.

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