Louise Balfe

Louise Balfe was a singer and performer

Also found as Miss Balfe

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

She was part of a new contingent performers that joined the Disney Roebuck company in mid-August of 1876, described as being a lively and fine actress, with a taelnt as singer, initially appearing as the leading characters in such burlesques as Little Don Giovanni and A Young Rip van Winkle, playing a "bewitching" "Rosalie" in Nemesis and the "London Waif" in Under the Gaslight.

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.347-351, 358

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