Affey Bevan
Affey Bevan (fl 1880s-1890s) was an actress.
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Biography
In 1888 she was in Melbourne, Australia, as a member of the Cogill Brothers Minstrel and Burlesque Company, when it put on a burlesque of Paul Merritt's The New Babylon (1878), called Old Babble 'Un[1].
She is mentioned again in The Era (25 November, 1893) when a benefit performance of was held for her in London.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
In 1890, she came to South Africa as a member of the Chambers Theatre Company, for which she appeared in plays such as The Bells of Haslemere and In the Ranks.
Sources
https://ozvta.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/1888-562016.pdf
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 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 390-391, .
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