11th Regiment

The 11th Regiment of the British forces was stationed in Cape Town, and some commissioned officers and men from the company apparently put on some theatrical performances in the new Theatre Royal (opened in 1860) and the (resurrected?) Barracks Theatre in 1861-2.

The company
A Captain Staunton appears to have been involved, and a company of eight African Minstrels (perhaps another name for the S.A. Minstrels of 1860), led by "Colour Sergeant" Heaven, also performed interludes. (See Minstrels)

The performances
The company was apparently particularly active in 1862, and among the productions mentioned by F.C.L. Bosman (1980: pp. 166-7) are: The Robber's Wife, or The Coiner's Cave (Pocock) and Bombastes Furioso (Rhodes) on Monday 4 February, 1861; Susan Hopley, or The Trials of a Servant Girl (Susan Hopley, or The Vicissitudes of a Servant Girl by **) and Two Heads are better than One  on 25 July 1862; and The Miller and His Men, Kiss in the Dark and a performance by the African Minstrels as interlude on Tuesday 2 December 1862.

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