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[["Charles Holloway", [[AusStage]] website[https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/232958]
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"Charles Holloway", [[AusStage]] website[https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/contributor/232958]
  
 
[[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.)
 
[[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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W.J. Holloway (1843-1913)[] was a British/Australian actor and manager

Biography

Born William John Holloway in London, he emigrated to Australia in 1856, where he pursued his theatrical career in the years 1868-1898, "playing the Empire" with his company, becoming quite renowned for his Shakespearean productions in particular.


He was married to and died in 1913.

(For a partial list of his Australian productions, see "W.J. Holloway" in AusStage, The Australian Live Performance Database)[]

His brother, Charles Holloway (1848-1908)[1] also began acting in Australia in about 1874 and became an actor/manager himself round about 1893, touring Australia with his own company till 1906, primarily doing melodrama apparently. He was married to the actress Alice Deorwyn and father of actress Beatrice Holloway.

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

Sources

"W.J. Holloway", AusStage website[2]

David Holloway. 1979. Playing the Empire. London: George G. Harrop and Co.

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp72887/william-john-wj-holloway

"Charles Holloway", AusStage website[3]

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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