Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance is a 1959 play by English Marxist playwright John Arden (1930-2012) in which four army deserters arrive in a northern mining town to exact retribution for an act of colonial violence.

Performance history in South Africa
1963: Presented by the University of Cape Town's Speech and Drama Department at the Little Theatre from 15 to 25 June, directed by Rosalie van der Gucht, starring Percy Sieff, among others.

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