I.R. Taylor

I.R. Taylor (fl. mid 1800s) was a Cape Town amateur performer and playwright.

He was a founding member of the Cape Town Dramatic Club and wrote the play The Snake in the Grass in 1867, (perhaps a dramatization of The Snake in the Grass , a serial novel by Pierce Egan the Younger (The London Journal , 8 May 1858 - 27 Nov. 1858, in No. 720).

He is possibly also one of the co-members of the local Christy's troupe known as the Steele-Leslie-Taylor's Christy's Minstrels.

[TH, JH]

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 295

P.J. du Toit. 1988. Amateurtoneel in Suid-Afrika. Pretoria: Academica

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