=The company

Founded in Liverpool by Thomas Quinlan (1881–1951)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Quinlan_(impresario) in 1911, with Quinlan personally supervising everything, casting the operas himself, and seeing every act of every opera before it was presented to the public.

After rehearsing in London for five months, the company set of to tour the provinces, opening in Liverpool. They next visited Ireland at the end of 1911, then set for a season in Australia.

En route to Australia, they gave performances in Cape Town and Johannesburg during of February 1912.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Quinlan_(impresario)

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, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.301

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