Mrs Brough
(17?-18?) Professional actress who, with three other visiting professionals from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool - Mr Cooke, Mrs Cooke and Miss Williams - 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 7th November the company held a benefit performance for Miss Williams , doing The Will and Two Strings to your Bow. The English performers and Mrs Brough left the Cape left the Cape for the East after this. [JH/TH]
Sources
Bosman, 1928:pp 151-157; 170-177.
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