Dalle Case

CASE, Signor Dalle (18*?-) First appeared in the Cape in 1847 with his partner/brother Signor Severo, with whom he managed an “Italian Circus”, which staged a variety of circus-style programmes as well as several pantomimes at the Victoria Theatre and the Garrison Theatre in Cape Town. In 1848, the brothers went their separate ways, each with his own circus. Dalle, however, also acted as impresario for a professional French theatre-company (the French Dramatic Artistes), freshly arrived from Mauritius, which debuted in the Hope Street Theatre in 1848 with a show featuring mainly song and dance. However, Case failed to make a financial success of this venture, and the company soon abandoned him, becoming known as Theatre de L’Union. Shortly thereafter he appears to have left the Cape (and show-business) for adventures in the interior.

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