Young Men's Dramatic Company - Revision history

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The [[Young Men's Dramatic Company]] was a company that put on two performances in [[Mr Ferguson's Saloon]], in the Swiss Hotel, Plein Street, Cape Town during 1867. The company may have been a derivative of an earlier company, the [[Amateur Dramatic and Christy Minstrels Company]], also briefly active in the same venue in February of the same year.

The [[Young Men's Dramatic Company]] first performed there on 29 th June, doing Love in Hyumble Life and The Turned Head and followed this with Ben Bolt (Johnstone) and ''[[A Shilling Day at the (Great) Exhibition]]'' (Halliday and Brough) on 24 July.

== Sources ==

[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p. 271.

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 The [[Young Men's Dramatic Company]] was a company that put on two performances in [[Mr Ferguson's Saloon]], in the Swiss Hotel, Plein Street, Cape Town during 1867. The company may have been a derivative of an earlier company, the [[Amateur Dramatic and Christy Minstrels Company]], also briefly active in the same venue in February of the same year.
-The [[Young Men's Dramatic Company]] first performed there on 29 th June, doing ''[[Love in Humble Life]]'' and ''[[The Turned Head]]'' and followed this with ''[[Ben Bolt]]'' (Johnstone) and  ''[[A Shilling Day at the (Great) Exhibition]]'' (Halliday and Brough) on 24 July.
+The [[Young Men's Dramatic Company]] first performed there on 29 th June, doing ''[[Love in Humble Life]]'' (Scribe and Dupin) and ''[[The Turned Head]]'' and followed this with ''[[Ben Bolt]]'' (Johnstone) and  ''[[A Shilling Day at the (Great) Exhibition]]'' (Halliday and Brough) on 24 July.
 After this no more is heard of the company.

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 == Return to ==
-Return to [[ESAT Venues W]]
+Return to [[ESAT Venues Y]]
 Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]]