Checkmate

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Checkmate is a comedy in two act by Andrew Halliday ()[]

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Performance history in South Africa

1876: Performed on 19 and 22 August in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, by the Disney Roebuck company, under the temporary management of C. Wiltstone. Also played was The Dream at Sea (Buckstone).

1876: Performed on 23 August in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, by the Disney Roebuck company, under the temporary management of C. Wiltstone. Also played was The Bottle, or The Drunkard's Doom (Taylor).

1876: Performed on 2 November in the Athenaeum Hall, Cape Town, by the Disney Roebuck company, under the temporary management of C. Wiltstone. Also played was The Cross of Gold ().

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman, 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.342, 343, 346.


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