City Amateur Theatrical Society

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City Amateur Theatrical Society was a short-lived amateur company which staged a few productions in the Dutch Company's Bree Street Theatre in Cape Town in 1854. Bosman (1828, p. 427) suggests that it may have been another initiative of the elocution teacher T.P. Hill.

Plays performed include Hamlet (Act 3), A Race for Dinner (Rodwell), The Secret (Morris), Ion (Talfourd) on 27 July 1854 and The Mendicant (À Beckett), The First Floor (Cobb) and The Secret! (Morris) on 21 August 1854.

Performers include Mr J. Boxer (also named as "Director" in one programme), Mrs Arlington, Mr Ashley.

The company is not mentioned again after 1854.

[JH, TH]


Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp.423, 426-7

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