Mrs Cooke

(17?-18?) Professional actress who, with three other visiting professionals from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool - Mr Cooke, Miss Williams and Mrs Brough - performed in semi-professional plays with the Gentlemen Amateurs) during the 1818 season at the Cape. They began with The Honey Moon and The Devil to Pay on 24th January 1818 and ended their visit on 21 November 1818 with Catherine and Petrucchio, Crochet Lodge, and a divertissiment called Sandy and Jenny. On the 26th September the company held a benefit performance for Mrs Cooke , doing The Wandering Boys, followed by The Bird Duet and The Miller and His Men. The company from Liverpool left the Cape for the East after this. [JH/TH]

Sources

Bosman, 1928:pp 151-157; 170-177.

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