Annie Baldwin
Annie Baldwin was a British actress who performed in South Africa
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Biography
She worked at the Adelphi Theatre, London in the 1880s
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
She visited Cape Town in 1895 with the Annie Baldwin Company to perform plays such as Charley's Aunt (Thomas) and A Woman of No Importance (Wilde), and was seen once more in April and May of 1887 under the management of the Wheeler Brothers, inter alia playing the lead in Peril (Sardou/"Saville Rowe").
Sources
D.C. Boonzaier, 1980. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: p. 402.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.384, 402
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