The Amorous Prawn
The Amorous Prawn is a play by Anthony Kimmins [1] (1901-1964).
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The original text
A British light comedy about an Army general who has fallen upon hard times and his wife, who hits upon a scheme to raise some quick cash. She opens her husband's highland headquarters to visiting salmon fishermen, a circumstance that displeases the general when several of those anglers turn out to be handsome young men.
Written and first produced at New Theatre, Oxford (12th – 17th October 1959). The text published by Samuel French.
Translations and adaptations
Made into a film called The Amorous Prawn[2], directed by author Kimmel in 1962 (known as The Amorous Mr. Prawn, and retitled The Playgirl and the War Minister in America).
Also adapted as a novel by the author.
Performance history in South Africa
1961: Performed at the Alexander Theatre in September, directed by Victor Melleney with a cast that included Joe Stewardson, Patricia Gill, Diane Wilson, Joan Blake, Simon Swindell, Jimmy Asser, Pip Flood-Murphy, Gabriel Bayman, Ronald Wallace, Webster Booth and Norman Kelly-Herde.
Sources
The Alexander Theatre programme of The Amorous Prawn, ESAT Archives (September, 1961, No. 154).
The Amorous Prawn theatre programme and photographs held by NELM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amorous_Prawn
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055746/
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