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 ==Biography==
-Born Florence Isabella Brandon on 15 December 1858 in Putney, near London. She married William Waller Lewis – later known as the actor-manager '''[[Lewis Waller]]''' (1860-1915)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Waller] – in April 1882 and had a son and a daughter. Having, like her husband, played in amateur theatricals, she gradually built a professional career as an actress, making her debut in 1883. She initially used the stage name [[Florence West]], and frequently appeared with her husband in the West End and on tour until her retirement in 1905. In the course of her career sh created a number of characters in new plays by prominent playwrights, including Oscar Wilde and [[George Bernard Shaw]], and most noably the leadng role of "[[Zaza]]" in the English version by David Belasco. From about 1900 she tended to be billed as [[Mrs Lewis Waller]].
+Born Florence Isabella Brandon on 15 December 1858 in Putney, near London. She married William Waller Lewis – later known as the actor-manager '''[[Lewis Waller]]''' (1860-1915)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Waller] – in April 1882 and had a son and a daughter. Having, like her husband, played in amateur theatricals, she gradually built a professional career as an actress, making her debut in 1883. She initially used the stage name [[Florence West]], and frequently appeared with her husband in the West End and on tour until her retirement in 1905. In the course of her career sh created a number of characters in new plays by prominent playwrights, including Oscar Wilde and [[George Bernard Shaw]], and most noably the leadng role of "[[Zaza]]" in the English version by David Belasco. From about 1900 she tended to be billed as '''[[Mrs Lewis Waller]]'''.
 She passed away on 14 November 1912.

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 ==Biography==
-Born Florence Isabella Brandon on 15 December 1858 in Putney, near London. She married William Waller Lewis – later known as the actor-manager [[Lewis Waller]] (1860-1915)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Waller] – in April 1882 and had a son and a daughter. Having, like her husband, played in amateur theatricals, she gradually built a professional career as an actress, making her debut in 1883. She initially used the stage name [[Florence West]], and frequently appeared with her husband in the West End and on tour until her retirement in 1905. In the course of her career sh created a number of characters in new plays by prominent playwrights, including Oscar Wilde and [[George Bernard Shaw]], and most noably the leadng role of "[[Zaza]]" in the English version by David Belasco. From about 1900 she tended to be billed as [[Mrs Lewis Waller]].
+Born Florence Isabella Brandon on 15 December 1858 in Putney, near London. She married William Waller Lewis – later known as the actor-manager '''[[Lewis Waller]]''' (1860-1915)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Waller] – in April 1882 and had a son and a daughter. Having, like her husband, played in amateur theatricals, she gradually built a professional career as an actress, making her debut in 1883. She initially used the stage name [[Florence West]], and frequently appeared with her husband in the West End and on tour until her retirement in 1905. In the course of her career sh created a number of characters in new plays by prominent playwrights, including Oscar Wilde and [[George Bernard Shaw]], and most noably the leadng role of "[[Zaza]]" in the English version by David Belasco. From about 1900 she tended to be billed as [[Mrs Lewis Waller]].
 She passed away on 14 November 1912.

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 ==Biography==
-Born Florence Isabella Brandon on 15 December 1858 in Putney, near London. She married William Waller Lewis – later known as the actor [[Lewis Waller]] – in April 1882 and had a son and a daughter. Having, like her husband, played in amateur theatricals, she gradually built a professional career as an actress, making her debut in 1883. She initially used the stage name [[Florence West]], and frequently appeared with her husband in the West End and on tour until her retirement in 1905. In the course of her career sh created a number of characters in new plays by prominent playwrights, including Oscar Wilde and [[George Bernard Shaw]], and most noably the leadng role of "[[Zaza]]" in the English version by David Belasco. From about 1900 she tended to be billed as [[Mrs Lewis Waller]].
+Born Florence Isabella Brandon on 15 December 1858 in Putney, near London. She married William Waller Lewis – later known as the actor-manager [[Lewis Waller]] (1860-1915)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Waller] – in April 1882 and had a son and a daughter. Having, like her husband, played in amateur theatricals, she gradually built a professional career as an actress, making her debut in 1883. She initially used the stage name [[Florence West]], and frequently appeared with her husband in the West End and on tour until her retirement in 1905. In the course of her career sh created a number of characters in new plays by prominent playwrights, including Oscar Wilde and [[George Bernard Shaw]], and most noably the leadng role of "[[Zaza]]" in the English version by David Belasco. From about 1900 she tended to be billed as [[Mrs Lewis Waller]].
 She passed away on 14 November 1912.
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-She visited South Africa in 1903, to perform in a number of plays, appearing at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Brothers]], opening with ''[[Zaza]]'' (Berton & Simon/Belasco) on 2 March. She also appeared in ''[[A Woman of No Importance]]'' (Wilde) and ''[[The Marriage of Kitty]]'' (De Gresac and De Croisset/ ).
+She visited South Africa in 1903, to perform in a number of plays, appearing at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Brothers]], opening with ''[[Zaza]]'' (Berton & Simon/Belasco) on 2 March. She also appeared in ''[[A Woman of No Importance]]'' (Wilde) and ''[[The Marriage of Kitty]]'' (De Gresac and De Croisset/ Gordon-Lennox).
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 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-She visited South Africa in 1903, to perform in a number of plays, appearing at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Brothers]], opening with ''[[Zaza]]'' (Berton & Simon/Belasco) on 2 March. She also appeared in ''[[A Woman of No Importance]]'' (Wilde) and ''[[The Marriage of Kitty]]'' ().
+She visited South Africa in 1903, to perform in a number of plays, appearing at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Brothers]], opening with ''[[Zaza]]'' (Berton & Simon/Belasco) on 2 March. She also appeared in ''[[A Woman of No Importance]]'' (Wilde) and ''[[The Marriage of Kitty]]'' (De Gresac and De Croisset/ ).
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−	She visited South Africa in 1903, to perform in a number of plays, appearing at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Brothers]], opening with ''[[Zaza]]'' (Berton & Simon/Belasco) on 2 March.	+	==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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		+	She visited South Africa in 1903, to perform in a number of plays, appearing at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Brothers]], opening with ''[[Zaza]]'' (Berton & Simon/Belasco) on 2 March. She also appeared in ''[[A Woman of No Importance]]'' () and ''[[The Marriage of Kitty]]''.

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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 == Sources ==
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaza_(play)
+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_West
 [[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

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	She visited South Africa in 1903, to perform in a number of plays, appearing at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Brothers]], opening with ''[[Zaza]]'' (Berton & Simon/Belasco) on 2 March.		She visited South Africa in 1903, to perform in a number of plays, appearing at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Brothers]], opening with ''[[Zaza]]'' (Berton & Simon/Belasco) on 2 March.
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		+	== Sources ==
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		+	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaza_(play)
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		+	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Berton_(playwright)
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		+	https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simon_(dramaturge)
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		+	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Belasco
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		+	[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman\|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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		+	[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.413
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		+	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]