Traveller's Joy

Traveller's Joy is a play by English writer and actor Arthur MacRae (1906-1962). A woman on business in Stockholm finds she has spent all her money and cannot pay her hotel bill. She discovers that her ex-husband is also staying at the hotel - but he is very short of cash too. They approach another British couple at the hotel for help - but it turns out they are there on an illicit rendezvous and will not help.

Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans by Herman Steytler with the title Platsak. Text available at the University of Stellenbosch Manuscripts Section, reference MS 31/5/155.

Performance history in South Africa
Presented by the Brian Brooke Company at the Hofmeyr Theatre, Cape Town before being staged in Johannesburg under the auspices of African Theatres in 1950.

Platsak was directed by Paul Malherbe for K.A.T. at the Labia Theatre in March 1953, starring Nerina Ferreira and Billy Trengove.

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