Ruth Peffers

Ruth Peffers (18**-19*) Actress, director, speech teacher and head of Speech and Drama at the College of Music, University of Cape Town, in the 1930s and 1940s.

As actress she appeared in Chekhov's The Seagull (Little Theatre, 1931), Old Maid (1939). **

As director she did Hippolytus (Little Theatre, 1931), Maeterlinck's Sister Beatrice (Little Theatre, 1933); The Pleasure Garden (Little Theatre, 1945); The Tidings Brought to Mary; Family Portrait; The Cradle Song; Marriage à la Mode. [FdV; MT]

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