Ye Mounted Warriors
Ye Mounted Warriors is a "military burlesque" by an unnamed author.
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A possible performance of a burlesque by this name is apparently mentioned in Vane Bennett's 1885 biographical sketch of Disney Roebuck, but further information about a piece by this name has yet been found.
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Performance history in South Africa
1877: Was (to have been?) performed by either the Border Police in King Williamstown - or by Disney Roebuck and his company while performing in the town. In any case, some kind of unspecified trouble seems to have resulted between Roebuck and the police with regards to the piece, according to Bennett (and cited by F.C.L. Bosman, 1980, p. 358).
Sources
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. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.358
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