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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 1923. (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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

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Nora Brocklebank (fl. 1900s) was a British actress.

Her name also found as Nora H. Brocklebank or Norah Brocklebank

Biography

In 1906 she appeared in a revival of The Geisha at Daly’s Theatre, London, she played "Maid Marian" in Babes in the Wood at the Court Theatre, Brighton, from 26 December 1907 onwards and the lead in The Girl behind the Counter at the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth.

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

She was part of a company that was brought to the country by the Wheeler Brothers, inter alia appearing at the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, from 10 August 1903 to 1904. She is specifically mentioned by D.C. Boonzaier (1923) as an actress in the successful production by the company of Florodora (Hall, Boyd-Jones, Rubens and Stuart) during July of 1904.

Sources

https://footlightnotes.wordpress.com/tag/nora-brocklebank/

https://www.mediastorehouse.com/mary-evans-prints-online/new-items-michael-diamond-collection/girl-counter-musical-comedy-portsmouth-19858889.html

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 1923. (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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