Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw

Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw is a farce in one act by John M. Morton (1811 – 1891)[1].

The original text

First staged in 1851 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London.

Performance history in South Africa

1853: Performed in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town by the Officers of the Garrison on 19 October, with Luke the Labourer, or The Lost Son (Buckstone); and repeated on 24 October.

1857: Performed as Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw by the Boscawen Amateurs (officers of H.M.S. Boscawen) in "a suitable place" in Simonstown on on 7 July, with Don Caesar de Bazan ().

1857: On 11 February 1859, while the H.M.S. Boscawen was in Table Bay, the Boscawen Amateurs (officers of H.M.S. Boscawen) put on a third performance of Don Caesar de Bazan in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, with The Rose of Amiens, or Our Wife (Morton). The officers were supported by Mrs Delmaine, Miss Delmaine and Miss Rowlands, as well as a number of local amateurs. W.R Jeffreys was the star once more, while the rest of the cast included R. Wells, C.B. Sevecke, J.R.F. Fullarton, T.A. de Waal, C.T. Layton, C.R. Smith, W.S. Brown, W.H. Maxwell and J.C. Plow.

Sources

http://www.grimshaworigin.org/GrimshawBagshaw.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: p. 423

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