Mrs Delamore
Mrs Delamore (18**-18**) was an amateur actress in Cape Town.
She appears to have performed for the Amateur Company of Mr Cuerton and the Garrison Players in Cape Town.
She is first mentioned by Bosman (1928 - as "Miss Delamore" on page 146, and "Mrs Delamore" on pp.176-7) when she and Mr Laing helped sell the tickets for, and no doubt both acted in, The Mountaineers (Colman) and Fortune's Frolic (Allingham), which were performed by a Society of Amateurs in the African Theatre on 22 July 1815, as a benefit performance for Mrs Delamore.
On Monday 28 October 1822 another benefit performance - this time of The Rivals and The Prisoner at Large - was held for her, and for two other ladies (Mrs Smith and Mrs Green), by the Garrison Amateur Company.
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp. 146, 165, 170, 176-7, 182-3, 370, 377.
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Sources
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp. 146, 176-7.
