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Plays performed include ''[[Hamlet]]'' (Act 3), ''[[A Race for Dinner]]'' (Rodwell), ''[[The Secret]]'' (Morris), ''[[Ion]]'' (Talfourd) on 27 July 1854 and ''[[The Mendicant]]'' (À Beckett), ''[[The First Floor]]'' (Cobb) and ''[[The Secret|The Secret!]]'' (Morris) on 21 August 1854. | Plays performed include ''[[Hamlet]]'' (Act 3), ''[[A Race for Dinner]]'' (Rodwell), ''[[The Secret]]'' (Morris), ''[[Ion]]'' (Talfourd) on 27 July 1854 and ''[[The Mendicant]]'' (À Beckett), ''[[The First Floor]]'' (Cobb) and ''[[The Secret|The Secret!]]'' (Morris) on 21 August 1854. | ||
| − | Performers include [[J. Boxer]] (also named as "Director" | + | Performers include [[J. Boxer]] (also named as "Director" in one programme), [[Mrs Arlington]], [[Mr Ashley]]. |
The company is not mentioned again after 1854. | The company is not mentioned again after 1854. | ||
Revision as of 05:16, 18 July 2016
City Amateur Theatrical Society was a short-lived amateur company which staged a few productions the Dutch Company's Bree Street Theatre in Cape Town in 1854.
Plays performed include Hamlet (Act 3), A Race for Dinner (Rodwell), The Secret (Morris), Ion (Talfourd) on 27 July 1854 and The Mendicant (À Beckett), The First Floor (Cobb) and The Secret! (Morris) on 21 August 1854.
Performers include J. Boxer (also named as "Director" in one programme), Mrs Arlington, Mr Ashley.
The company is not mentioned again after 1854.
[JH, TH]
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp.426-7
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