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Revision as of 16:59, 9 December 2012
(17?-18?) Professional actor who, with three other visiting professionals from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool - Mrs Cooke, Miss Williams and Mrs Brough - performed in semi-professional plays with the Gentlemen Amateurs) during the 1818 season at the Cape. They began with The Honey Moon and The Devil to Pay on 24th January 1818 and ended their visit on 21 November 1818 with Catherine and Petrucchio, Crochet Lodge, and a divertissiment called Sandy and Jenny, held as a benefit performance for Mr Cooke. The English performers left the Cape left the Cape for the East after this. [JH/TH]
Sources
Bosman, 1928:pp 151-157; 170-177.
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