Mr Laing

Mr Laing (18**-18**) was an amateur actor in Cape Town.

He helped sell the tickets for, and no doubt acted in, The Mountaineers (Colman) and Fortune's Frolic (Allingham) which were performed by a Society of Amateurs in the African Theatre as a benefit performance for Mrs Delamore in the African Theatre by a Society of Amateurs on 22 July 1815.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 146, 176-7.

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