The Dove Returns

The Dove Returns, a verse drama in three acts by Guy Butler (1918-2001).

The original text

Described as "a tragi-comic, literary drama in the style of Auden and T. S. Eliot" by Christopher Heywood (2004:p. 81), it is set in and after the Anglo-Boer War and looks at reconciliation betwee the warring parties. Published in Cape Town by A.A. Balkema and in London by Fortune Press, 1956.

South African productions

1955: Produced by National Theatre Organisation, directed by Clifford Williams, with Zoë de Villiers, Frank Wise, Alan Chadwick, Joanna Douglas, Leonard Graham, Brian Proudfoot, Aubrey Louw and Peter Boyce.

Sources

Lantern, 5(3):283-287. Feb 1956.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Butler_(poet)

Christopher Heywood, 2004

Martin Orkin, 1991

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