Mr Ashley

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Mr Ashley (18**-18**) was am amateur performer active in Cape Town in the 1850s.


Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

A member of the short-lived City Amateur Theatrical Society in Cape Town in 1854. He played the upholsterer "Furnish" in The First Floor (Cobb) on 21 August 1854.


He directed a performance of The Flower Queen, or The Coronation of the Rose in May of 1866

Sources

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

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