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== Biography ==
 
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She was a performer at the Adelphi Theatre in 1873 and played the role of Joan in ''[[Joan of Arc]]'' at the Opera Comique in 1891.
  
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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Emma Chambers (fl 1890s) was a British theatre manager and performer.

Biography

She was a performer at the Adelphi Theatre in 1873 and played the role of Joan in Joan of Arc at the Opera Comique in 1891.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Leader of the Chambers Theatre Company in Cape Town in 1890, for which she appeared in plays such as The Bells of Haslemere and In the Ranks.


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 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 390-391, .

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