Hawtrey Comedy Company

The Hawtrey Comedy Company was a British theatrical touring company headed by the actor-manager William (W.F.) Hawtrey (fl. early 1900s) (and originally founded with his brother, the more famous Charles Hawtrey, 1858-1923[1])

The company visited South Africa in 1894 with a production of Charley's Aunt (Thomas), done as one of the first performances at the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, under the management of the Wheeler Company.

Sources

Nicholas Martin and Jasper Rees. 2016. Florence Foster Jenkins. Pan Macmillan: p. [2]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4860039

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WH19030414.2.36

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hawtrey_(actor,_born_1858)

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: p.398

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