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Productions in South Africa include: | Productions in South Africa include: | ||
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In 1978/9 [[NAPAC]] did the play, with [[Lois Butlin]] as “Mrs De Winter” . | In 1978/9 [[NAPAC]] did the play, with [[Lois Butlin]] as “Mrs De Winter” . | ||
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by Daphne du Maurier. When published in 1938, du Maurier became – to her great surprise – one of the most popular authors of the day. Du Maurier herself adapted Rebecca as a stage play in 1939; it had a successful London run in 1940 of over 350 performances, and and made into a very succcessful film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.
Productions in South Africa include:
Presented by African Consolidated Theatres, produced by Minna Schneier at the Standard Theatre in September 1944, featuring Taubie Kushlick, Frank Douglass, Shirley Wakefield, Bruce Meredith-Smith.
In 1978/9 NAPAC did the play, with Lois Butlin as “Mrs De Winter” .
Sources
South African Opinion, 1(8), 1944. 20
SACD 1974, 1979/80;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(novel)
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