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| − | [[Maude Clifford]] (fl. 1873-1874) was an actress. | + | #REDIRECT [[Maude Clifford]] |
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| − | Also billed as '''[[Miss Clifford]]'''.
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| − | == Biography ==
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| − | ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
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| − | She visited South Africa as a member of [[Disney Roebuck]]'s first company that arrived in the country in 1873 for performances in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and King Williamstown.
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| − | She was largely used in supporting roles, and had great success playing the "precocious Sam Willoughby" in ''[[The Ticket of Leave Man]]'' (Brisebarre and Nus/Taylor).
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| − | In King Williamstown however, she fell out with Roebuck and sought to she left the company with [[E.V. Sinclair]] and Brougham. However this ended in the courts, since Roebuck argued that she had broken her contract. She was fined and prevented from leaving the company.
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| − | She is next heard of as performing with Sinclair (whom she had apparently married by then) in a panorama in the interior and offering a series of "[[entertainments]]" in the Graaff-Reinet [[Town Hall]] with the help of the local "[[Gentlemen Amateurs]]" during December.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 306, 316-318, 361
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