Garrison Players
One of the names given to the amateur theatre group that had been formed in the Cape Town Garrison (also known as the Garrison Amateur Company, the Gentlemen Amateurs or simply the Amateur Company), and used to differentiate them from the civilian amateurs who were called the English Theatricals. The two apparently competed heavily with one another for audiences, also for use of the African Theatre. The Garrison Players also used a theatre in the barracks, known as the Barracks Theatre or the Garrison Theatre.
They existed in one form or another from the very first anexation of the Cape by the British (1799) to 18**.
Among their productions over the long period were **, ** Exchange no Robbery and The Midnight Hour (8 October, 1825); The Review (5 November, 1825); The Heir at Law and Love, Law and Physic (16 August 1826);
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