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).

F.C.L. Bosman (1980, pp.216, 533) suggests he may have been the anonymous "Gentleman of Cape Town" who wrote The Wraith of Table Mountain, but other sources indicate that it was written by B. Mollan.

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: pp. 48, 53, 58, 98, 118, 124, 129, 143-5, 150, 153, 157, 168, 177, 180, 194, 215-6, 219, 220, 226, 231, 235, 295, 322.

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

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