C.J. Smith

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C.J. Smith was a Cape Town resident and an set designer and builder for amateur theatre

Biography

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

He was a member of the short lived Phoenix Dramatic Club, in Cape Town in 1865, and was responsible for the "splendid Scenery" for the club's presentation of the "Grand Comical, Classical (Musical) Burlesque of William Tell" presented on 1 August, 1865 in the Theatre Royal, as afterpiece to a repeat performance of The Irish Attorney, or Galway Practice (Bernard).

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 269

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