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1889: Performed by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, opening on 26 August, with the visiting celebrity comedian [[Lionel Brough]] as "James Busby".
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1889: Performed by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, opening on 26 August, with the visiting celebrity comedian [[Lionel Brough]] as "James Busby". The production was poorly attended, as were most of that season by Searelle in the unsuitable [[Exhibition Theatre]].
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:52, 30 December 2020

The Paper Chase is a play by C. Thomas ()[]

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Performance history in South Africa

1889: Performed by the Luscombe Searelle and his company in the Exhibition Theatre, Cape Town, opening on 26 August, with the visiting celebrity comedian Lionel Brough as "James Busby". The production was poorly attended, as were most of that season by Searelle in the unsuitable Exhibition Theatre.

Sources

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 Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.387-8

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