Private Amateur Company
The Private Amateur Company was was the name given to two amateur theatrical companies active in Cape Town in the 19th century.
The Private Amateur Company 1834
It seems to have been formed on the demise of Booth’s All the World's a Stage in 1834. Probably a continuation of the original English Theatricals and the private companies that followed.
The Private Amateur Company 1847
In 1847 there is another reference to a company of this name, though it is also named English Private Theatricals. The company seems to have consisted of Dutch-speakers and with A. van Breda as secretary, which performed three times in English in the Roeland Street Theatre. However it is possibly the same company.
See further English Private Theatricals for this company.
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Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 204, 206,
P.J. du Toit, 1988. Amateurtoneel in Suid-Afrika. Pretoria: Academica
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