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''[[The Happy Ashantees]]'' (or simply ''[[Happy Ashantees]]'') was the name of an [[minstrel]] troupe and/or the name given to an item in a minstrelsy show, popular in the mid-19th century, usually performed in [[blackface]].
  
==The original text==
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In 1877 an item billed as ''[[The Happy Ashantees]]'' was included in the programme for a presentation by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 7 August, apparently as an interlude between performances of ''[[Pygmalion and Galathea]]'' () and ''[[Mr & Mrs White]]'' ()
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
  
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== Sources ==
  
1877: Performed as ''[[The Happy Ashantees]]'' by the [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 7 August, along with ''[[Pygmalion and Galathea]]'' () and ''[[Mr & Mrs White]]'' ()
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Jen Wilson. 2019. ''Freedom Music: Wales, Emancipation and Jazz 1850-1950''. University of Wales Press: p.71
  
== Sources ==
 
  
 
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

Revision as of 05:36, 23 March 2020

The Happy Ashantees (or simply Happy Ashantees) was the name of an minstrel troupe and/or the name given to an item in a minstrelsy show, popular in the mid-19th century, usually performed in blackface.

In 1877 an item billed as The Happy Ashantees was included in the programme for a presentation by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 7 August, apparently as an interlude between performances of Pygmalion and Galathea () and Mr & Mrs White ()

Sources

Jen Wilson. 2019. Freedom Music: Wales, Emancipation and Jazz 1850-1950. University of Wales Press: p.71


D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.359

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