Marine theatre
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This term refers broadly to amateur theatre and other performances undertaken by officers and by sailors (on board ship and on land).
The very first performance of a European play on record was a shipboard performance of Hamlet on the , off the coast**
Other presentations noted in the 19th century include:
The amateurs of the H.M.S. Rattlesnake (playing inter alia in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 7 October 1869 in aid of the "Sailor's Home" and in the Dockyard Theatre, Simonstown, in July 1872).
See also Garrison Theatre
