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 : Performed in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 8 March, with a dance by [[Miss Duggan]] and an unnamed farce.
-: Performed in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 25 March, with with ''[[The Rows of Castille]]''  (Edwardes), said to be a "burlesque written expressly for this Co."
+: Performed in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 25 March, with ''[[The Rows of Castille]]''  (Edwardes), said to be a "burlesque written expressly for this Co."
 : Performed as a "Grand Parliamentary Night" in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 22  June   with ''[[La Somnambula]]''  (Moncrieff).

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 : Performed in Cape Town by the [[Potter-Bellew Company]] what Boonzaier calls "an interesting and attractive season", under the auspices of [[Luscombe Searelle]], probably in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], with [[Kyrle Bellew]] and [[Cora Urquhart Potter]] ([[Mrs Brown Potter]]) in the leading roles.
-: Performed in Cape Town by [[W. Haviland]] in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town.
+: Performed in Cape Town by [[William Haviland]] in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town.
 : It was one of the plays performed by a West End theatre company from London, led by actor-manager [[Gerald Lawrence]], which toured South Africa and Rhodesia, putting on a portfolio of five plays.  The tour played in venues owned by [[African Theatres]] Ltd. and started in Johannesburg on 1st April 1929 and finished in Cape Town on 3rd October.

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 : Performed in Cape Town by the [[Potter-Bellew Company]] what Boonzaier calls "an interesting and attractive season", under the auspices of [[Luscombe Searelle]], probably in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], with [[Kyrle Bellew]] and [[Cora Urquhart Potter]] ([[Mrs Brown Potter]]) in the leading roles.
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+: Performed in Cape Town by [[W. Haviland]] in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town.
 : It was one of the plays performed by a West End theatre company from London, led by actor-manager [[Gerald Lawrence]], which toured South Africa and Rhodesia, putting on a portfolio of five plays.  The tour played in venues owned by [[African Theatres]] Ltd. and started in Johannesburg on 1st April 1929 and finished in Cape Town on 3rd October.

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 == Performances in South Africa ==
-''Besides his performances in Cape Town, '''[[Disney Roebuck]]''' also took his company on tour, and would perform favourites form his repertoire in places like Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown as well - though these events are not always well documented in the press. This is also true of other performers and companies in the second half of the 19th century. [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1980) , relying on [[D.C. Boonziaer]]'s reminicences for the most part, usually only records Cape Town productions.''
+''Besides his performances in Cape Town, '''[[Disney Roebuck]]''' also took his company on tour, and would perform favourites form his repertoire in places like Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown as well - though these events are not always well documented in the press. This is also true of other performers and companies in the second half of the 19th century. [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1980) , relying on [[D.C. Boonzaier]]'s reminicences for the most part, usually only records Cape Town productions.''
 : ''[[David Garrick]]'' was the first play done by [[Disney Roebuck]] when he set out to tour the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces with his company (formally known as the [[United Service Dramatic Company]]) in 1873. It opened his first season in the [[Mutual Hall]] (i.e. the concert hall of the Mutual Building) in Cape Town, playing nightly, on 26-29 November,  with ''[[Perfection, or The Lady of Munster]]'' (Bayly) as afterpiece.
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 J.S. Le Fanu’s “Shamus O’Brien” (1850), Swan River Press[https://swanriverpress.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/poetry-day-ireland-le-fanus-shamus-obrien-1850/]
 [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 306, 309-313, 322, 325-329, 339, 340, 352, 359, 370, 394, 406.

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 == Performances in South Africa ==
-''Besides his performances in Cape Town, '''[[Disney Roebuck]]''' also took his company on tour, and would perform favourites form his repertoire in places like Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown as well - though these events are not always well documented in the press.''
+''Besides his performances in Cape Town, '''[[Disney Roebuck]]''' also took his company on tour, and would perform favourites form his repertoire in places like Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown as well - though these events are not always well documented in the press. This is also true of other performers and companies in the second half of the 19th century. [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (1980) , relying on [[D.C. Boonziaer]]'s reminicences for the most part, usually only records Cape Town productions.''
 : ''[[David Garrick]]'' was the first play done by [[Disney Roebuck]] when he set out to tour the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces with his company (formally known as the [[United Service Dramatic Company]]) in 1873. It opened his first season in the [[Mutual Hall]] (i.e. the concert hall of the Mutual Building) in Cape Town, playing nightly, on 26-29 November,  with ''[[Perfection, or The Lady of Munster]]'' (Bayly) as afterpiece.
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 : Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 11 July with ''[[Little Don Giovanni, or Leporello and the Stone Statue]]''  (Byron).
 : Performed in Cape Town by the [[Potter-Bellew Company]] what Boonzaier calls "an interesting and attractive season", under the auspices of [[Luscombe Searelle]], probably in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], with [[Kyrle Bellew]] and [[Cora Urquhart Potter]] ([[Mrs Brown Potter]]) in the leading roles.
 : It was one of the plays performed by a West End theatre company from London, led by actor-manager [[Gerald Lawrence]], which toured South Africa and Rhodesia, putting on a portfolio of five plays.  The tour played in venues owned by [[African Theatres]] Ltd. and started in Johannesburg on 1st April 1929 and finished in Cape Town on 3rd October.

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	1878: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 11 July with ''[[Little Don Giovanni, or Leporello and the Stone Statue]]'' (Byron).		1878: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 11 July with ''[[Little Don Giovanni, or Leporello and the Stone Statue]]'' (Byron).

		+	1892: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Potter-Bellew Company]] what Boonzaier calls "an interesting and attractive season", under the auspices of [[Luscombe Searelle]], probably in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], with [[Kyrle Bellew]] and [[Cora Urquart Potter]] in the leading roles.

	1929: It was one of the plays performed by a West End theatre company from London, led by actor-manager [[Gerald Lawrence]], which toured South Africa and Rhodesia, putting on a portfolio of five plays. The tour played in venues owned by [[African Theatres]] Ltd. and started in Johannesburg on 1st April 1929 and finished in Cape Town on 3rd October.		1929: It was one of the plays performed by a West End theatre company from London, led by actor-manager [[Gerald Lawrence]], which toured South Africa and Rhodesia, putting on a portfolio of five plays. The tour played in venues owned by [[African Theatres]] Ltd. and started in Johannesburg on 1st April 1929 and finished in Cape Town on 3rd October.

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	1877: Performed as ''[[David Garrick]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]]'s company on 29 August, with ''[[The Irish Tutor]]'' (Butler).		1877: Performed as ''[[David Garrick]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]]'s company on 29 August, with ''[[The Irish Tutor]]'' (Butler).
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		+	1878: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 11 July with ''[[Little Don Giovanni, or Leporello and the Stone Statue]]'' (Byron).