Anna Hickish

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Anna Hickish


Also referred to as Annie Hickish by Boonzaier (1923).

Biography

She seems to have been a member of the George Edwardes' Company between 1905 and 1907, appearing in South Africa and the UK.

UK appearances included The Lady Dandies (The Merveilleuses, /Hood) at The Grand theatre in Leeds (1907),

Died in Cook, Illinois, United States in 1915?*

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

She was a member of the original South African cast of Veronique (Vanloo and Duval) when presented by the Wheeler Company in 1905 (opening in the Opera House, Cape Town on 11 September, revived in the first half of 1906) and played the lead ("Catherine Upscher") in The Duchess of Dantzic (Sardou/Hamilton) opposite Wybert Stamford a "Napoleon", when it was first performed in South Africa by the Wheeler-Edwardes Gaiety Company, opening in the Opera House, Cape Town, on 28 May, 1906.

Sources

https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/34/?name=_Hickish

http://www.leodis.net/playbills/item.asp?ri=2003225_60120791

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 1923. (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: pp. 425, 435

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