Quiet Weekend

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Quiet Weekend is a 1941 play by British actress and playwright Esther McCracken [1] (1902-1971). . The play ran for over a thousand performances; it was a sequel to the 1941 play Quiet Wedding.

In South Africa it was presented by the Brian Brooke Company, produced by Will Jamieson in the Hofmeyr Hall, February 1947. The cast: Petrina Fry, Joyce Bradley, Frank Wise, Brian Brooke, June Shaw, Eve van der Byl, John Longworth, Dorothea Gibson, Brigid Gibbings.

1949: Quiet Weekend produced in Port Elizabeth by an "Old Girl," Marjorie Lochhead for the Collegiate Girls' High School Bursary Fund. £140 was raised.

Sources

South African Opinion, 4(1):23, 1947.

Daily Advertiser, April 16, 1949.

Brooke 1978. 157.

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