Affey Bevan
Affey Bevan (fl 1890s) was a theatre performer in Cape Town.
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Biography
In 1888 she was in melbourne, Australia, as a member of the Cogill Brothers Minstrel and Burlesque Company, when it put on a burlesque of Paul Merritt's The New Babylon (1878)[1].
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
A member of the Chambers Theatre Company in Cape Town in 1890, for which she appeared in plays such as The Bells of Haslemere and In the Ranks.
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 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. 390-391, .
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