Fra Diovolo, or The Banditti of the Anrouzes

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Fra Diovolo, or The Banditti of the Anrouzes was a "Grand Historical Pantomime" in two acts put on by the Equestrian Gymnastics company, with music by Guerroluch. According to the advertisement in the South African Commercial Advertiser[1] of 19 October 1850, it had been first performed Circus Theatre of Paris, and consisting of "Grand Military Evolutions by upwards of Sixty Actors on Foot and on Horseback. It was performed a number of times in Cape Town between October and December, 1850."


Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[2]: pp.439-440