The Crafty Tortoise

The Crafty Tortoise, is a children's play by Fatima Dike, based on black African folk tales. Written and produced at the The Space (Cape Town) in 1978, directed by Pippa Duffy with Errol Hart, Colin Jantjies, Thabiso Koti, Pam Mills, Mary Mthinka and Tiny Skefile. The stage managers were Faruk Hoosain, Hashmet Naidoo, Sally Brown and Jean Naidoo.

Sources

Astbury 1979.

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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation.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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