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==Translations and adaptations==
 
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Adapted as a film in 1951, directed by Jack Raymond and starring Ronald Shiner as "Sam Porter" and Diana Dors as "Thelma".
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 05:23, 3 August 2021

A Worm's Eye View is a comedy in three acts by R.F. Delderfield (1912-1972)[1].


The original text

Written in 1945, and published by Samuel French (1948)

Translations and adaptations

Adapted as a film in 1951, directed by Jack Raymond and starring Ronald Shiner as "Sam Porter" and Diana Dors as "Thelma".

Performance history in South Africa

1951: First produced in South Africa by Brian Brooke, opening April 1951 in the Hofmeyr Theatre in Cape Town, enjoying a run at His Majesty's Theatre, Johanneburg, later that year. John Roberts directed, Brian Brooke played Porter, also starring Diane Bester.

1951: The play toured Rhodesia during September to November

Sources

Brian Brooke 1978. My Own Personal Star: An Autobiography. Johannesburg: The Limelight Press. 201-5, 207.


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