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==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
 
==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
  
In 1890, she came to South Africa as a member 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]]''.
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In 1890, she came to South Africa as a member of the [[Chambers Theatre Company]], for which she appeared in plays such as ''[[The Bells of Haslemere]]'' and ''[[In the Ranks]]''.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:13, 17 September 2021

Affey Bevan (fl 1880s-1890s) was an actress.

Biography

In 1888 she was in Melbourne, Australia, as a member of the Cogill Brothers Minstrel and Burlesque Company, when it put on a burlesque of Paul Merritt's The New Babylon (1878), called Old Babble 'Un[1].

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

In 1890, she came to South Africa as a member of the Chambers Theatre Company, for which she appeared in plays such as The Bells of Haslemere and In the Ranks.

Sources

https://ozvta.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/1888-562016.pdf

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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