Fish Hoek Dramatic Society
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Fish Hoek Dramatic Society (FHDS)
Founded in 1953 and opened with a production of Dry Rot (**?) . Founder member Bill Warrener later had a trophy named after him. Its venue for years was the Fish Hoek Civic Centre, but later began to play at the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg, producing many large-scale musicals and other work.
Productions
1971: Mirabella, directed by Bertie Foyle.
1973: Cinderella by Geoffrey Tansley.
1974: A Christmas Carol, directed by Marcia Lawton.
1978: Mother Goose, directed by Doug Anderson at the Fish Hoek Civic Centre.
1979: The Heiress, directed by Estelle Knott-Craig at the Baxter Studio
Fish Hoek Dramatic Society One-act Play Festival
In 1962/3 it launched an annual One-act Play Festival which is still active with English and Afrikaans entries from all over the Cape Peninsula, celebrating the twenty-fifth festival in 1987. The festival was initially also staged in the Fish Hoek Civic Centre, before moving to the Fish Hoek High School Theatre.
Sources
Gosher, 1988
Brian Barrow and Yvonne Williams-Short (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987. Cape Town: The Baxter Theatre.
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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