Dr Edmund Somers - Revision history

Satj at 09:16, 18 February 2013

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(17**-18**) Director of the Cape Town military hospital and founder of the [[Thespian Society]]. He and his wife (qv) were intensely interested in theatricals and had discovered the [[Barracks Theatre]]. She wrote a number of prologues and speeches for the performances, while he apparently directed and performed in them, reading the prologues and playing inter alia Lady Pentweazel in ''[[Taste]]'', Falstaff in ''[[Henry IV]]''. Between 1799 and 1802 he became very much part of [[Sir George Yonge]]'s ideas for theatre in the colony and served on the committee for the [[African Theatre]]. He returned to England in 1802.

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−	(17-18) Director of the Cape Town military hospital and founder of the [[Thespian Society]]. He and his wife, [[Mrs Somers]], were intensely interested in theatricals and had discovered the [[Barracks Theatre]]. She wrote a number of prologues and speeches for the performances, while he apparently directed and performed in them, reading the prologues and playing inter alia Lady Pentweazel in ''[[Taste]]'', Falstaff in ''[[Henry IV]]''. Between 1799 and 1802 he became very much part of [[Sir George Yonge]]'s ideas for theatre in the colony and served on the committee for the [[African Theatre]]. Indeed, Lady Anne Barnard suggests that the whole idea of the African Theatre derives from Sir George's enjoyment of Dr Somers's production of what she called ''[[Teasle]]'' ( ~~Fletcher says~~ it was ''[[Taste]]'') by Foote, in the Hospital.	+	(17-18) Director of the Cape Town military hospital and founder of the [[Thespian Society]]. He and his wife, [[Mrs Somers]], were intensely interested in theatricals and had discovered the [[Barracks Theatre]]. She wrote a number of prologues and speeches for the performances, while he apparently directed and performed in them, reading the prologues and playing inter alia Lady Pentweazel in ''[[Taste]]'', Falstaff in ''[[Henry IV]]''. Between 1799 and 1802 he became very much part of [[Sir George Yonge]]'s ideas for theatre in the colony and served on the committee for the [[African Theatre]]. Indeed, Lady Anne Barnard suggests that the whole idea of the African Theatre derives from Sir George's enjoyment of Dr Somers's production of what she called ''[[Teasle]]'' ( actually it was ''[[Taste]]'') by Foote, in the Hospital.

	Bosman (1928 p 107) seems to suggest that he is possibly the same as the [[Edmund Summers]] who is listed as one of the members of the Theatre Commission appointed by Sir George Yonge.		Bosman (1928 p 107) seems to suggest that he is possibly the same as the [[Edmund Summers]] who is listed as one of the members of the Theatre Commission appointed by Sir George Yonge.

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-(17**-18**) Director of the Cape Town military hospital and founder of the [[Thespian Society]]. He and his wife (qv) were intensely interested in theatricals and had discovered the [[Barracks Theatre]]. She wrote a number of prologues and speeches for the performances, while he apparently directed and performed in them, reading the prologues and playing inter alia Lady Pentweazel in ''[[Taste]]'', Falstaff in ''[[Henry IV]]''. Between 1799 and 1802 he became very much part of [[Sir George Yonge]]'s ideas for theatre in the colony and served on the committee for the [[African Theatre]]. He returned to England in 1802.
+(17**-18**) Director of the Cape Town military hospital and founder of the [[Thespian Society]]. He and his wife, [[Mrs Somers]], were intensely interested in theatricals and had discovered the [[Barracks Theatre]]. She wrote a number of prologues and speeches for the performances, while he apparently directed and performed in them, reading the prologues and playing inter alia Lady Pentweazel in ''[[Taste]]'', Falstaff in ''[[Henry IV]]''. Between 1799 and 1802 he became very much part of [[Sir George Yonge]]'s ideas for theatre in the colony and served on the committee for the [[African Theatre]]. Indeed, Lady Anne Barnard suggests that the whole idea of the African Theatre derives from Sir George's enjoyment of Dr Somers's production of what she called ''[[Teasle]]'' ( Fletcher says it was ''[[Taste]]'') by Foote, in the Hospital.
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Dr Edmund Somers - Revision history

Satj at 09:16, 18 February 2013

Satj at 08:50, 18 February 2013

Gaerin: Created page with "(17**-18**) Director of the Cape Town military hospital and founder of the Thespian Society. He and his wife (qv) were intensely interested in theatricals and had discovered ..."

Gaerin: Created page with "(17-18) Director of the Cape Town military hospital and founder of the Thespian Society. He and his wife (qv) were intensely interested in theatricals and had discovered ..."