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	1905: Presented at [[St Mary's Hall]], Woodstock, Cape Town in December as a Grand Charity Performance.		1905: Presented at [[St Mary's Hall]], Woodstock, Cape Town in December as a Grand Charity Performance.

		+	1917: Produced and directed by Miss [[Norah O'Neill]] at the [[Masonic Hall]], Germiston, featuring students from her studio.
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	1951: Presented by the UCT Dramatic Society at the [[Little Theatre]] August 1951, directed by [[Leonard Schach]] and starring [[Peter Lamsley]]. Decor by [[Cecil Pym]], costumes by [[Doreen Graves]].		1951: Presented by the UCT Dramatic Society at the [[Little Theatre]] August 1951, directed by [[Leonard Schach]] and starring [[Peter Lamsley]]. Decor by [[Cecil Pym]], costumes by [[Doreen Graves]].

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		+	1905: Presented at [[St Mary's Hall]], Woodstock, Cape Town in December as a Grand Charity Performance.
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	1951: Presented by the UCT Dramatic Society at the [[Little Theatre]] August 1951, directed by [[Leonard Schach]] and starring [[Peter Lamsley]]. Decor by [[Cecil Pym]], costumes by [[Doreen Graves]].		1951: Presented by the UCT Dramatic Society at the [[Little Theatre]] August 1951, directed by [[Leonard Schach]] and starring [[Peter Lamsley]]. Decor by [[Cecil Pym]], costumes by [[Doreen Graves]].

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	1892: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by Miss [[Emilie Bevan's Comedy Company]] at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Loop Street, Cape Town.		1892: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by Miss [[Emilie Bevan's Comedy Company]] at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Loop Street, Cape Town.
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		+	1895: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' at the [[Masonic Hall]], Addington, Durban in February.

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 : ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by [[Julia Sydney's Company]] at the [[Theatre Royal]], Durban in December.
-: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by Miss [[Emelie Bevan's Comedy Company]] at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Loop Street, Cape Town.
+: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by Miss [[Emilie Bevan's Comedy Company]] at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Loop Street, Cape Town.
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	1891: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by [[Julia Sydney's Company]] at the [[Theatre Royal]], Durban in December.		1891: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by [[Julia Sydney's Company]] at the [[Theatre Royal]], Durban in December.
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		+	1892: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by Miss [[Emelie Bevan's Comedy Company]] at the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Loop Street, Cape Town.

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 : The Planché version was performed by the [[Sefton Parry]] company in the [[Harrington Street Theatre|Cape Town Theatre]] on 2 March,  with ''[[The Wandering Minstrel]]'' (Mayhew) and ''The Tragical History of Lord Lovel''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Lovel], a ballad performed by [[J.E.H. English]], as afterpieces.
-: Billed as the [[Baby Benson]] Pantomime  (with a libretto in part by St John Knight) in the [[Athenaeum Theatre]], Cape Town, in association with the local [[Dramatic Recital Society]], and directed by [[Monsieur Frigerio]].
+: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' (billed as the [[Baby Benson]] Pantomime)  (with a libretto in part by St John Knight) in the [[Athenaeum Theatre]], Cape Town, in association with the local [[Dramatic Recital Society]], and directed by [[Monsieur Frigerio]].
 : ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by [[Julia Sydney's Company]] at the [[Theatre Royal]], Durban in December.

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
 : The Planché version was performed by the [[Sefton Parry]] company in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town theatre on 24 December, for one performance only, with ''[[A Kiss in the Dark]]'' as afterpiece. Billed as "a magnificent Burlesque Fairy Spectacle in Three Acts and several Tableaux", it was possibly the first English pantomime presented in full in South Africa, though Parry himself claimed this distinction for ''[[Babes in the Wood]]'' (1858).
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 : ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by [[Julia Sydney's Company]] at the [[Theatre Royal]], Durban in December.
 : Presented by the UCT Dramatic Society at the [[Little Theatre]] August 1951, directed by [[Leonard Schach]] and starring [[Peter Lamsley]]. Decor by [[Cecil Pym]], costumes by [[Doreen Graves]].
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 : Gray's version staged by [[Roodepoort Civic Theatre]] in association with [[Brian Charteris Productions]] at the [[Roodepoort Civic Theatre]], directed by [[John Rogers]].
 : ''[[Skoonlief en die Ondier]]''  presented by the [[University of Stellenbosch Drama Department]], directed by [[Gaerin Hauptfleisch]] and performed at the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] in May.

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	1878: Billed as the [[Baby Benson]] Pantomime (with a libretto in part by St John Knight) in the [[Athenaeum Theatre]], Cape Town, in association with the local [[Dramatic Recital Society]], and directed by [[Monsieur Frigerio]].		1878: Billed as the [[Baby Benson]] Pantomime (with a libretto in part by St John Knight) in the [[Athenaeum Theatre]], Cape Town, in association with the local [[Dramatic Recital Society]], and directed by [[Monsieur Frigerio]].
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		+	1891: ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' presented by [[Julia Sydney's Company]] at the [[Theatre Royal]], Durban in December.

	1951: Presented by the UCT Dramatic Society at the [[Little Theatre]] August 1951, directed by [[Leonard Schach]] and starring [[Peter Lamsley]]. Decor by [[Cecil Pym]], costumes by [[Doreen Graves]].		1951: Presented by the UCT Dramatic Society at the [[Little Theatre]] August 1951, directed by [[Leonard Schach]] and starring [[Peter Lamsley]]. Decor by [[Cecil Pym]], costumes by [[Doreen Graves]].

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	1967: Presented by [[PACT]], 1967, with [[Don Lamprecht]] as Hodge.		1967: Presented by [[PACT]], 1967, with [[Don Lamprecht]] as Hodge.
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		+	1973: The Gray version presented by [[Pretoria Theatre for Children]] at the [[East Rand Theatre Club]] and the [[Piet van der Walt Theatre]], Pretoria, directed by [[Tim Heale]].

	1977: Presented by the [[Lodge Players]] at [[Little Theatre]], Pretoria, directed by [[Ernest Rodger]].		1977: Presented by the [[Lodge Players]] at [[Little Theatre]], Pretoria, directed by [[Ernest Rodger]].

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	1967: Presented by [[PACT]], 1967, with [[Don Lamprecht]] as Hodge.		1967: Presented by [[PACT]], 1967, with [[Don Lamprecht]] as Hodge.
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		+	1977: Presented by the [[Lodge Players]] at [[Little Theatre]], Pretoria, directed by [[Ernest Rodger]].

	1978: A production by [[Compass Productions]], using the 1951 text by Nicholas Stuart Gray and directed by [[Helen Houghton]] at [[Space Theatre\|The Space ]](Cape Town), with [[James Andrews]], [[Lyn Banner]], [[Paul Bosman]], [[Nicholas Fine]], [[Cindy Just]], [[Judith Krummeck]] and [[Corinne Willoughby]]. (Designs by [[René Hermanus]], sound and lighting by [[Tony Twine]] and [[Vivian Bickford]] as Stage Manager)		1978: A production by [[Compass Productions]], using the 1951 text by Nicholas Stuart Gray and directed by [[Helen Houghton]] at [[Space Theatre\|The Space ]](Cape Town), with [[James Andrews]], [[Lyn Banner]], [[Paul Bosman]], [[Nicholas Fine]], [[Cindy Just]], [[Judith Krummeck]] and [[Corinne Willoughby]]. (Designs by [[René Hermanus]], sound and lighting by [[Tony Twine]] and [[Vivian Bickford]] as Stage Manager)