Life With Father

Life with Father, by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, the dramatisation of the home life of a New York family in the 1880’s. Based on the biography of Clarence Day [1].

Performance history in South Africa

1944: Produced by Edythe Carter-Johnson and H.R. Klein for the Johannesburg Repertory Society. The cast: Shirley Hepburn, Charles F. Mill, Julius Sergay, Pat Norton, John Macdonald, Ernest Abbot. Set by Manfred Hermer.

1944: Presented by the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society at the Little Theatre in October, directed by Costa Couvara.

1955: Produced by Costa Couvara for the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society, with C. Carey Lacey, Madeleine Legge, Ronald Crook, Playton James and others. Set designed by Cecil Pym. Sept-Oct 1955.

Sources

Wikipedia [2].

South African Opinion, 1(9):20; Trek, 9(8):18; 9(10):18, 1944.

Inskip, 1972. p.130.

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