University Players

A theatre company established at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in the early 1920's, beginning with three performances of The Tempest at the Palladium Theatre, Johannesburg in 1923. (Incidental music was played by an ensemble of six which included Prof Percival Kirby, head of the Dept of Music at Wits).

Productions

Productions staged by the organisation include:

1923: The Tempest

1929: A Trip to Scarborough, The Vikings of Helgeland (1929?)

1950: The Boy With A Cart and Androcles and the Lion

1951: The Lady's not for Burning

1955: Dark of the Moon

1957/1958?: Julius Caesar

1972: Animal Farm

Date unknown: Tiger at the Gates

Sources

Tucker, 1997. 206.

Teaterforum, 4(1), 1983, 113.

Walter Greyvenstein 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 Unpublished doctoral dissertation.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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