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Performance history in South Africa

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	[[UTS]] theatre pamphlet		[[UTS]] theatre pamphlet
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		+	Listing of productions in the [[UTS]] programme for ''[[Arms and the Man]]'', [[H.B. Thom Theatre]], Stellenbosch, 1968 (held in [[ESAT Archive]])

	''Performing Arts'', HSRC, 1972.		''Performing Arts'', HSRC, 1972.

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		+	https://www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/ladies-in-retirement-6-2-24/

	''[[The Rand Daily Mail]]'', 7 March 1941 (re ''Die Rooi Pruik'').		''[[The Rand Daily Mail]]'', 7 March 1941 (re ''Die Rooi Pruik'').

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 ==The original text==
-A gothic thriller in three acts, based on a famous murder which actually took place at the end of the 19th century, the play is set in 1885. The drama focuses on Ellen Creed, a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora’s home, tensions soon lead to murder. Though the death is carefully covered up, will the murderess get away with her crime, or will she be brought to justice?
+A gothic thriller in three acts, based on a famous murder which actually took place at the end of the 19th century, the play is set in 1885. The drama focuses on Ellen Creed, a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora’s home, tensions soon lead to murder. Though the death is carefully covered up, will the murderess get away with her crime, or will she be brought to justice?[https://www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/ladies-in-retirement-6-2-24/]
 Written in 1939, the play was first performed on 12 December 1939, at St James’s Theatre, London, directed by Reginald Denham. With its 1940 Broadway production that starred [[Flora Robson]] in the lead role, itd went on to become a huge hit in New York and elsewhere.

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 ==The original text==
-A gothic thriller in three acts, based on a famous murder which actually took place at the end of the 19th century, the play is set in 1885.
+A gothic thriller in three acts, based on a famous murder which actually took place at the end of the 19th century, the play is set in 1885. The drama focuses on Ellen Creed, a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora’s home, tensions soon lead to murder. Though the death is carefully covered up, will the murderess get away with her crime, or will she be brought to justice?
 Written in 1939, the play was first performed on 12 December 1939, at St James’s Theatre, London, directed by Reginald Denham. With its 1940 Broadway production that starred [[Flora Robson]] in the lead role, itd went on to become a huge hit in New York and elsewhere.

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		+	https://theatricalia.com/play/6r9/ladies-in-retirement/production/p6e

	''[[The Rand Daily Mail]]'', 7 March 1941 (re ''Die Rooi Pruik'').		''[[The Rand Daily Mail]]'', 7 March 1941 (re ''Die Rooi Pruik'').

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	==Sources==		==Sources==
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		+	https://www.josef-weinberger.com/plays-and-pantomime/play/ladies-in-retirement.html

	''[[The Rand Daily Mail]]'', 7 March 1941 (re ''Die Rooi Pruik'').		''[[The Rand Daily Mail]]'', 7 March 1941 (re ''Die Rooi Pruik'').

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	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==
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		+	Filmed in 1941 as an American film noir, directed by Charles Vidor[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladies_in_Retirement]

	Translated into [[Afrikaans]] entitled ''[[Die Rooi Pruik]]'' by [[C.F. Mynhardt]], the father of [[Siegfried Mynhardt]]. The setting on the Thames estuary has, for the [[Afrikaans]] adaptation, been transferred to a similar type of countryside at the Cape between Muizenberg and Wynberg.		Translated into [[Afrikaans]] entitled ''[[Die Rooi Pruik]]'' by [[C.F. Mynhardt]], the father of [[Siegfried Mynhardt]]. The setting on the Thames estuary has, for the [[Afrikaans]] adaptation, been transferred to a similar type of countryside at the Cape between Muizenberg and Wynberg.

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-The 1940 Broadway production starred [[Flora Robson]] in the lead role. Full-length. Cast: mixed.
+The 1940 Broadway production starred [[Flora Robson]] in the lead role.
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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Produced by [[Mary Holder]] for the Combined Dramatic Societies of Cape Town in the [[Little Theatre]], with [[Margot Lassner]] (Ellen Creed), [[Violet Dunlop]] (Emily Creed), [[Estelle de Villiers]],  [[Minna Millsten]] (Leonora Fiske), [[Basil Warner]] (Albert), [[Pera Miller]] and [[Nell Angles]].
+: Produced by [[Mary Holder]] for the [[Combined Dramatic Societies of Cape Town]] in the [[Little Theatre]], with [[Margot Lassner]] (Ellen Creed), [[Violet Dunlop]] (Emily Creed), [[Estelle de Villiers]],  [[Minna Millsten]] (Leonora Fiske), [[Basil Warner]] (Albert), [[Pera Miller]] and [[Nell Angles]].
 : ''[[Die Rooi Pruik]]'' touring during March visiting Krugersdorp, Pretoria and the [[Library Theatre]], Johannesburg. The cast: [[Siegfried Mynhardt]] (in the only male role), [[Maxi Potgieter]], [[Margot van Hoppen]], [[Hansje Hendrikz]], [[Kittie de Villiers]], [[Marie du Preez]] and [[Johanna Smuts]]. Decor by [[Willem Hendrikz]].