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There is a record Brown and Norton performing this particular skit at the School of Arts in Sydney Australia on 5 May, 1863 as part in their final season. | There is a record Brown and Norton performing this particular skit at the School of Arts in Sydney Australia on 5 May, 1863 as part in their final season. | ||
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Revision as of 05:47, 29 September 2018
Nervous Cures is a Ethiopian skit probably created by Joe Brown and Wash Norton of a Christy Minstrels tgroupe that visited South Africa and Australia in 1863.
According to an Australian website about Circus History Society, in its section covering the Barlow Minstrel Troupe[1], they had been shipwrecked on the coast of South Africa and then continued on to Australia, where they went on to perform.
There is a record Brown and Norton performing this particular skit at the School of Arts in Sydney Australia on 5 May, 1863 as part in their final season.
In November 1868 a burlesque called The Nervous Cures was apparently performed in Cape Town by , along with Charles White's Ethiopian sketch called United States Mail, as a benefit for the Oddfellows Library and Reading Room.
Sydney Morning Herald, 5 May, 1863[2]
The Australian Circus History Society Website[3]
