Mr Brooks

Mr Brooks (fl 1860s) was an actor.

F.C.L. Bosman (1980) also refers to a Sydney Brooks on page 201, but it would seem this is an error, for the programme printed on pages 195-9 clearly has two individual names: "Mr Sydney" and "Mr Brooks". The reference should most probably have included a comma, to read "Sydney, Brooks en E.Turner"

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

Mr Brooks played the role(roles?) of "Death Head & Crossbones" (or "Death Head" AND "Crossbones" - two of the three "attendant spirits") in Ray and Cooper's 1865 production of the pantomime Little Jack Horner, or Harlequin A.B.C. at the Theatre Royal, Cape Town.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 111, 196 201

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