French Theatrical Company
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The concept of a French Theatrical Company in Cape Town appears in a number of guises over the course of the first half of the 18th century:
A French Theatre company reported by “Sam Sly” to have opened the Drury Lane Theatre on Constitution Hill in Cape Town on June 19th, 1848, with “tragic Scenes, Vaudevilles, and Interludes of music and dancing”. May have been Dalle Case and the company from Mauritius which was billed as "French Dramatic Artistes".
Sources
Bosman 1928, pp94,
Fletcher, 1994
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See also French Dramatic Artistes and French theatre in South Africa
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