Shadow Pantomime

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The Shadow Pantomime (or simply Shadow Pantomime) is a theatre performance known in South Africa through the performances of the Le Roy and Duret Company in 1866-1867.

See also Le Roy and Duret Company

The original text

Porbably a piece of shadow theatre, apparently devised and performed by the Le Roy and Duret Company in the 1860s. They claim that it



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Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed by the Le Roy and Duret theatre company in the Theatre Royal in Harrington Street, Cape Town, as Shadow Pantomime on the 25th of August. This was part of a children's matinee, which also included On the Sly, The Nervous Cures (Brown and Norton) and The Dancing Scotchman ((Flexmore and Auriol?).

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