People are Living There

People are Living There by Athol Fugard. ***

First published by Buren in 1969.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans by Marko van der Colff as Daar Leef Mense Daar, first produced on 20 August 1982. The text is unpublished.

Performance history in South Africa

1967: First performed in ** by ***. presented by CAPAB c.1967 (Theatre programme, NELM)??

1969: Revived by Peter Curtis, manager of English drama of the the state-funded Cape Performing Arts Board under the direction of Athol Fugard, with Yvonne Bryceland as “Milly” and Bill Flynn (Ken Leach?) as “Shorty”, Don played by the author and Sissy by Gillian Garlick, opening at the Hofmeyr Theatre on 14 June 1969. It was taken on tour of the country in conjunction with the other PAC’s, ?*.

1969/70: Presented around by PACT/CAPAB in association with Phoenix Players at the Alexander Theatre. Directed by Athol Fugard. Cast - Milly: Yvonne Bryceland. Don: Athol Fugard. Shorty: Ken Leach. Sissy: Gillian Garlick. Set designed by Keith Anderson. Costumes designed by Jennifer Craig. Company manager was Dale Cutts, stage manager David McBirnie, assistant stage manager Glynn Day. Set constructed and painted by Keith Anderson Productions. Production photographer Brian Astbury.

1971: Directed by Francois Swart for PACT, ??

1972: Produced at The Space, Cape Town, directed by Bill Tanner, with Yvonne Bryceland, Bill Flynn, Jacqui Singer and Paul Slabolepszy; designer Axel Pedersen; stage manager Bee Berman. Also ran on three further occasions at The Space (Cape Town) in 197*, with Yvonne Bryceland, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Glynn Day, Wilson Dunster, Andrea Fine and Fiona Stuart-White.

1977: Danny Keogh starred in The Company’s presentation of Barney Simon’s revival of People are Living There with Wilson Dunster, Vanessa Cooke and Yvonne Bryceland at The Market Theatre in 1977.

1982: Produced in Afrikaans by CAPAB as Daar Leef Mense Daar. It opened in the Nico Malan Theatre on 20 August, with subsequent performances at the H.B. Thom Theatre, the Monument Theatre in Grahamstown and the Savoy Theatre in Port Elizabeth in September. Directed by Athol Fugard directed, assisted by Rozelle Vogelman, with Lida Meiring (Milly), David van der Merwe (Shorty), Marthinus Basson (Don) and Lisa-Maria Fugard (Sissy). Decor and costumes were by Penny Simpson and lighting by Malcolm Hurrell.

1989: In May 1989 the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department presented the play at the Libertas Theatre during the Lanzerac Stellenbosch Festival. The director was Noël Roos and the cast were Catherine Fenix, Arnold Hoon, Waldi Schultz and Tanya Swanepoel.

1995: Performed in the Baxter Theatre in 1995, directed by Christopher Weare with Brenda Wood, Jonathan Pienaar, Marguerite Albrecht and Pierre Neethling.

1997: Staged in The Civic in February 1997, directed by Dorothy-Ann Gould, with Sandra Prinsloo, Justin Cohen, Byron Mondahl and Celia Steyn-Craddock.

2008: Produced in Afrikaans as Daar Leef Mense Daar by ** and directed by Juanita Swanepoel.

2015: The Market Theatre and the Windybrow Theatre by arrangement with DALRO (Pty) Limited presented the play in the Barney Simon Theatrefrom 22 April to 24 May. Directed by André Odendaal with Anna-Mart van der Merwe (Milly), Carel Nel, Dania Gelderblom, and Francois Jacobs.

Radio, film and TV

19**: A filmed version of the original stage production ***

2012: An Afrikaans radio adaptation was broadcast as Daar Leef Mense Daar by RSG, directed by Juanita Swanepoel, with Deidré Wolhuther (Milly), Johann Nel, Wessel Pretorius and Hannah Borthwick.

Sources

Programme notes of the production in 1969/70 at the Alexander Theatre.

Teater SA, 1(4), 1969.

Weekly Mail, 24-30 March 1995.

Astbury, 1979.

Press release: "People Are Living There at Market Theatre", Market Theatre Foundation - 04/14/2015[1]

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