Agness Knights
Agness Knights (fl. 1900) was an actress
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Biography
She worked for the Strand Theatre and Charles Arnold's English Comedy Company, going on international tours with Arnold inter alia visiting Australia and South Africa, appearing in plays such as The World Against Her (), Captain Fritz (Hamilton), The Private Secretary (Von Moser) and Charley's Aunt (Thomas) in Australia (1894-5) and in An Empty Stocking (), What Happened to Jones (Broadhurst), The Professor's Love Story (), Hans the Boatman (Greene), Why Smith Left Home () and The Grey Parrot () during the 1900-1902 South African and Australian season.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She was a member of the cast of What Happened to Jones (Broadhurst) and possibly An Empty Stocking () when performed as a double bill by Charles Arnold's English Comedy Company on tour in Australia and South Africa in January of 1900, and again in Australia on 1902.
Sources
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.407.
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