The Water Babies
The Water Babies or The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley.
Contents
The original text
Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863.
Translations and adaptations
A ballet version was staged by UCT Ballet School at the Baxter Theatre in 1982.
Performance history in South Africa
1961: Presented by Dramatic Society of East London.
1969: Sybil Marks for Theatre Workshop.
1973: Presented by Dramatic Society of East London, adapted by Maude Moorshead, directed by Joy Meaker.
Sources
Theatre Workshop programme, undated.
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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation.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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