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 : Produced for [[National Theatre Organisation]] in 1958 by [[Leon Gluckman]] with a distinguished cast, including [[Margaret Inglis]] (Lady Teazle), [[Pieter Geldenhuys]] (Sir Peter), [[Frank Wise]], [[Siegfried Mynhardt]], [[Nigel Hawthorne]], [[Brian Proudfoot]], [[David Laughton]], [[Pamela Borain]], [[Robert Del Kyrke]], [[David Herbert]], [[Yvonne Dur]], [[Gerald Schuller]], [[Joyce Grant]], as Mrs. Candour, [[Zoe Randall]], as Lady Sneerwell, and [[David Beattie]], as Sir Benjamin Mackbite. Costumes by [[Frank Graves|Frank]] and [[Doreen Graves]].
-: Presented as the opening production for the [[Guild Theatre]], directed by [[Mary Howe]], with [[Lynette Alexander]] as Lady Sneerwell.
+: Presented as the opening production for the [[Guild Theatre]], directed by [[Mary Howe]], with [[Lynette Alexander]] as Lady Sneerwell and [[Bill Sloper]] as Sir Peter Teazle.
 : Performed at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]], opening on 4 March 1969. Directed by [[Roy Sargeant]], with décor and costumes designed by [[Keith Anderson]]. The cast included [[Philip Birkinshaw]], [[Elliot Playfair]], [[Bernard Brown]], [[David Goatham]], [[Lyn Hooker]], [[Zoë Randall]], [[Yvonne Bryceland]], [[Wilson Dunster]], [[Ralph Lawson]], [[Roger Dwyer]], [[Ken Leach]], [[Pietro Nolte]], [[Alan Prior]], [[Will Bernard]], [[John Ramsbottom]], [[Gillian Garlick]], [[Joey Wishnia]], [[Glynn Day]], [[Brian Kennedy]], [[Gaenor Becker]], [[Gordon Sara]], [[Lorna Robertson]].

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 : Produced for [[National Theatre Organisation]] in 1958 by [[Leon Gluckman]] with a distinguished cast, including [[Margaret Inglis]] (Lady Teazle), [[Pieter Geldenhuys]] (Sir Peter), [[Frank Wise]], [[Siegfried Mynhardt]], [[Nigel Hawthorne]], [[Brian Proudfoot]], [[David Laughton]], [[Pamela Borain]], [[Robert Del Kyrke]], [[David Herbert]], [[Yvonne Dur]], [[Gerald Schuller]], [[Joyce Grant]], as Mrs. Candour, [[Zoe Randall]], as Lady Sneerwell, and [[David Beattie]], as Sir Benjamin Mackbite. Costumes by [[Frank Graves|Frank]] and [[Doreen Graves]].
-: Presented as the opening production for the [[Guild Theatre]], directed by [[Mary Howe]].
+: Presented as the opening production for the [[Guild Theatre]], directed by [[Mary Howe]], with [[Lynette Alexander]] as Lady Sneerwell.
 : Performed at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]], opening on 4 March 1969. Directed by [[Roy Sargeant]], with décor and costumes designed by [[Keith Anderson]]. The cast included [[Philip Birkinshaw]], [[Elliot Playfair]], [[Bernard Brown]], [[David Goatham]], [[Lyn Hooker]], [[Zoë Randall]], [[Yvonne Bryceland]], [[Wilson Dunster]], [[Ralph Lawson]], [[Roger Dwyer]], [[Ken Leach]], [[Pietro Nolte]], [[Alan Prior]], [[Will Bernard]], [[John Ramsbottom]], [[Gillian Garlick]], [[Joey Wishnia]], [[Glynn Day]], [[Brian Kennedy]], [[Gaenor Becker]], [[Gordon Sara]], [[Lorna Robertson]].

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 : Produced for [[National Theatre Organisation]] in 1958 by [[Leon Gluckman]] with a distinguished cast, including [[Margaret Inglis]] (Lady Teazle), [[Pieter Geldenhuys]] (Sir Peter), [[Frank Wise]], [[Siegfried Mynhardt]], [[Nigel Hawthorne]], [[Brian Proudfoot]], [[David Laughton]], [[Pamela Borain]], [[Robert Del Kyrke]], [[David Herbert]], [[Yvonne Dur]], [[Gerald Schuller]], [[Joyce Grant]], as Mrs. Candour, [[Zoe Randall]], as Lady Sneerwell, and [[David Beattie]], as Sir Benjamin Mackbite. Costumes by [[Frank Graves|Frank]] and [[Doreen Graves]].
 : Performed at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]], opening on 4 March 1969. Directed by [[Roy Sargeant]], with décor and costumes designed by [[Keith Anderson]]. The cast included [[Philip Birkinshaw]], [[Elliot Playfair]], [[Bernard Brown]], [[David Goatham]], [[Lyn Hooker]], [[Zoë Randall]], [[Yvonne Bryceland]], [[Wilson Dunster]], [[Ralph Lawson]], [[Roger Dwyer]], [[Ken Leach]], [[Pietro Nolte]], [[Alan Prior]], [[Will Bernard]], [[John Ramsbottom]], [[Gillian Garlick]], [[Joey Wishnia]], [[Glynn Day]], [[Brian Kennedy]], [[Gaenor Becker]], [[Gordon Sara]], [[Lorna Robertson]].
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 [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 306, 323-4, 327-339, 361, 410, 427
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	''[[The Star]]'' 2 July 1980.		''[[The Star]]'' 2 July 1980.
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		+	Review by [[Raeford Daniel]], ''[[The Rand Daily Mail]]'', 25 July 1980 ([[PACT]] production).

	Robert Kay. 2011. "Gerald Lawrence, Elgar and the missing Beau Brummel Music", ''The Elgar Society Journal'': pp.4-28[http://elgar.org/elgarsoc/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vol.-17-No.-3-December-2011-Compressed.pdf]		Robert Kay. 2011. "Gerald Lawrence, Elgar and the missing Beau Brummel Music", ''The Elgar Society Journal'': pp.4-28[http://elgar.org/elgarsoc/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vol.-17-No.-3-December-2011-Compressed.pdf]

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 : Performed on board ship, ''en route'' to Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]]'s company, with ''[[To Oblige Benson]]'' (Lemoine-Moreau  and Delacour/Taylor), as a benefit for the "Cape Town Dispensary".
-: Performed by the [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 21 April, with ''[[Slasher and Crasher]]'' (Morton) as afterpiece. [[Bessie Cranston]] played "Lady Sneerwell" and [[Bessie Palmer]] "Mrs Candour" in Sheridan's play.
+: Performed by the [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 21 April, with ''[[Slasher and Crasher]]'' (Morton) as afterpiece. [[Miss Berenger]] played "Lady Teazle",  [[Bessie Cranston]] "Lady Sneerwell" and [[Bessie Palmer]] "Mrs Candour" in Sheridan's play.
 : Performed by the [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 30 April.

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 : Done in South Africa by the [[Gentlemen Amateurs]] in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town on 27 June 1818, with the help of [[Mr Cooke]] and his company of ladies. The afterpiece was given as Carey's burlesque ''[[The Tragedy of Chrononhotonthologos|Chrononhotonthologos]]''.
-: Performed on board ship, ''en route'' to Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]]'s company, with ''[[To Oblige Benson]]'' (Taylor), as a benefit for the "Cape Town Dispensary".
+: Performed on board ship, ''en route'' to Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]]'s company, with ''[[To Oblige Benson]]'' (Lemoine-Moreau  and Delacour/Taylor), as a benefit for the "Cape Town Dispensary".
 : Performed by the [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 21 April, with ''[[Slasher and Crasher]]'' (Morton) as afterpiece. [[Bessie Cranston]] played "Lady Sneerwell" and [[Bessie Palmer]] "Mrs Candour" in Sheridan's play.

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 -6: Performed by the [[Holloway Theatre Company]], under the auspices of the [[Wheeler Theatre Company]] theatre company as part of a season of plays which opened in the [[Standard Theatre]], Johannesburg on the 26th December with ''[[Othello]]''.  The company was composed of [[William J. Holloway]], [[Leonard Rayne]], [[Gerald Lawrence]],  [[Amy Grace]], [[John Nesbitt]], [[William Haviland]] and [[Amy Coleridge]]. The company also played other cities, including the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, for a season that opened in May 1896.
-: Performed by a company featuring [[Nance O'Neill]] as part of a season of plays put on at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, in September, under the management of the [[Wheeler Brothers]].
+-2: Performed by a company featuring [[Nance O'Neill]] as part of a season of plays put on at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the management of the [[Wheeler Brothers]] in in September, 1901 and February, 1902.
 : Performed by a company featuring [[Cora Brown-Potter]] as part of a short season of plays put on in June, under the management of the [[Wheeler Brothers]].

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 : Repeated in February by [[Nance O'Neill]] and company at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town.
-: Performed by a company featuring [[Mrs Brown Potter]] as part of a short season of plays put on in June, under the management of the [[Wheeler Brothers]].
+: Performed by a company featuring [[Cora Brown-Potter]] as part of a short season of plays put on in June, under the management of the [[Wheeler Brothers]].
 : 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 by a company featuring [[Nance O'Neill]] as part of a season of plays put on at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, in September, under the management of the [[Wheeler Brothers]].
-: Repeated in February by [[Nance O'Neill]] and company as part of their season of plays put on at the [[Good Hope Theatre]], Cape Town, under the management of the [[Wheeler Brothers]].
+: Performed by a company featuring [[Mrs Brown-Potter]] as part of a short season of plays put on in June, under the management of the [[Wheeler Brothers]].
 : 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.