Difference between revisions of "O'Flaherty V.C."

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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
Presented by [[CAPAB]]'s Theatre in the Round Company in 35 towns in the Northern Cape as far afield as Mafikeng and Port Nolloth in 1970, directed by [[Pietro Nolte]].
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1970: Presented by [[CAPAB]]'s [[Theatre in the Round Company]] in 35 towns in the Northern Cape, as far afield as Mafikeng and Port Nolloth. Directed by [[Pietro Nolte]].
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 09:47, 30 September 2023

O'Flaherty V.C. is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw.

Also appears under the fuller title: O'Flaherty V.C., A Recruiting Pamphlet

The original text

A comic one-act play written during World War I about an Irish soldier in the British army returning home after winning the Victoria Cross and is used as part of a recruitment campaign among the Irish.

Published in a volume with, among other plays, Heartbreak House by Constable in 1931.

Performance history in South Africa

1970: Presented by CAPAB's Theatre in the Round Company in 35 towns in the Northern Cape, as far afield as Mafikeng and Port Nolloth. Directed by Pietro Nolte.

Sources

Tango programme notes, 1970.

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