Mr Gough

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Mr Gough (fl 1850s) was a semi-professional singer and performer.

Biography

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

He worked as performer with Sefton Parry during Parry's second visit to the Cape colony (1857-1863) and founded a minstrel troupe, called the Ethiopian Serenaders, in Cape Town in 1858. Confusingly the troupe was on occasion possibly also referred to as the Christy Minstrels.

In 1858 he performed a "Jockey Dance" as part of an evening's entertainment by Sefton Parry and his company on 9 April, along with The Flying Dutchman (Fitzball), The Honest Milkman (Brough), and a song sung by J.E.H. English .

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik.

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