Miss Williams

(17?-18?) Professional actress who, with three other visiting professionals from the Theatre Royal, Liverpool - Mr Cooke, Mrs Cooke and Mrs Brough - performed in semi-professional plays with the Gentlemen Amateurs) during the 1818 season at the Cape. They began with The Honey Moon and The Devil to Pay on 24th January 1818 and ended their visit on 21 November 1818 with Catherine and Petrucchio, Crochet Lodge, and a divertissiment called Sandy and Jenny. On the 24th October the company held a benefit performance for Miss Williams , doing Othello and The Poor Soldier. The English performers and Miss Williams left the Cape left the Cape for the East after this.

See also the Gentlemen Amateurs

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Sources

Bosman, 1928:pp 151-157; 170-177.

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