Bree Street Theatre

A venue opened in Cape Town on the corner of Bree- and Dorp-Streets. This possibly occurred as early as 1848, because Jill Fletcher (1994, p. 79), mentions that the Mauritian circus of Dalla Case first appeared there in 1848. However, elsewhere says it was at the Hope Street Theatre.

More certain is that it was occupied, and possibly started in 1852 by the Dutch company Door Yver Bloeit de Kunst. It seems to have been a well-equipped for a theatre, but a somewhat inadequate and uncomfortable hall and this led its demise. Its use by the Dutch amateurs was discontinued towards the end of 1853 and , after being used by the City Amateur Theatrical Society for a few performances in 1854, it was finally abandoned as a theatre space.

[TH, JH]

Sources

Fletcher, 1994;

Bosman, 1928: pp 426-7

De Zuid Afrikaan, 12 Sept. 1853.

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