Hawtrey Comedy Company
The Hawtrey Comedy Company was an Australian theatrical touring company headed by the actor-manager W.F. Hawtrey Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923)[1]
They visited South Africa in 1894 to do a production of Charley's Aunt (Thomas) as one of the first performances at the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, under the management of the Wheeler Company.
Sources
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/4860039
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WH19030414.2.36
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hawtrey_(actor,_born_1858)
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: p.398
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