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| − | [[Thomas Brazier]] (fl 1860s, died 1871) was an actor active in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth in the 1860s and early 1870s.
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| − | ''Also billed as [[T. Brazier]] or [[Mr Brazier]] on occasion, while he and [[Mrs Brazier]] are at times jointly referred to as '''[[The Braziers]]'''.''
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| − | == Biography ==
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| − | ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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| − | He was a performer for [[Sefton Parry]] and for [[Clara Tellett]] and her company in the early 1860s.
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| − | With the demise of [[Mrs Tellett]]'s company in 1862, Brazier, who stayed on in Cape Town owing to the pregnancy of his wife, usually billed as '''[[Mrs Brazier]]''', performed for [[Sefton Parry]] (inter alia playing "[[Rob Roy]]") and began (unsuccessfully as it happens) seeking work as a tutor, teacher of elocution, corresponding clerk, or any other suitable employment, became the lessee of [[The Round House]] in Camps Bay, where the child was born in May of 1863. Brazier ran the property as a restaurant and entertainment venue, and by the start of 1864 he was advertising it as [[The Round House Hotel]]. On 4 April he also tried his hand at lecturing at a presentation of Harper's ''[[Diorama of Holland and the Rhine]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], but his eccentric and uninformed presentations led to his dismissal.
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| − | Returning to the safer ground of play-readings and straight theatre, he a presented a series of ''[[Dramatic Readings]]'', appearing every alternate Monday in the Cape Town [[City Hall]] between 4 July and 7 November of 1864. The seven plays in the series were Knowles's ''[[The Hunchback]]'', Bulwer-Lytton's ''[[The Lady of Lyons]]'' and five plays by Shakespeare: ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', ''[[King John]]'' and ''[[Much Ado about Nothing]]''.
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| − | Besides the readings he also produced and performed in a few plays at the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, in 1864, among them ''[[Still Waters Run Deep]]'' (Taylor), ''[[Loving Too Fast, or A Twelve Month's Honeymoon]]'' (Troughton), ''[[The Turned Head]]'' (Beckett), ''[[Time Tries All]]'' (Courtney) and ''[[The Irish Post]]'' (Planché).
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| − | On 12 December there was a farewell for the Braziers, who were leaving for Port Elizabeth to continue their careers there.
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| − | In 1870 he is back in Cape Town with his wife
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp.
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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. 188-190,
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