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In 1894 they played a second, slightly shorter, season at the Opera House, Cape Town.    The repertoire this time was ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', .
 
In 1894 they played a second, slightly shorter, season at the Opera House, Cape Town.    The repertoire this time was ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', ''[[]]'', .
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[[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 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.
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Revision as of 06:01, 26 October 2019

The Emilie Bevan Comedy Company was a theatre company active in Cape Town in 1892 and 1894.

The company had been founded, and was managed, by Emilie Bevan, who had taken a lease on The Vaudeville Theatre in Cape Town, the company began a successful season of a little over three and a half months there on 8 August, 1892.

The remarkably extensive repertoire of this first season consisted of The Old Love and the New, The Silver King, The English Rose, [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]].


In 1894 they played a second, slightly shorter, season at the Opera House, Cape Town. The repertoire this time was [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], [[]], .

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 1932. (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.

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