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Produced by [[Mary Holder]] in 1941 for the University of Cape Town Dramatic Society with [[Peggy Goodman]], [[Leonard Schach]], [[Ada Kaplan]], [[Elizabeth Bushell]], [[Donald Inskip]], [[John Burnett]], [[John Walker]]. | Produced by [[Mary Holder]] in 1941 for the University of Cape Town Dramatic Society with [[Peggy Goodman]], [[Leonard Schach]], [[Ada Kaplan]], [[Elizabeth Bushell]], [[Donald Inskip]], [[John Burnett]], [[John Walker]]. | ||
| − | Produced by [[Joyce Burch]] with the Stellenbosch University Speech-Training Students in the [[Little Theatre]] in 1944, with [[Johanna Olivier]], [[Charles Johnman]], [[Miemie de Bruyn]], [[Kitty Roux]], [[Johan Liebetrau]], [[Chris Botha]]. | + | Produced by [[Joyce Burch]] with the Stellenbosch University Speech-Training Students in the [[Little Theatre]] in 1944, with [[Johanna Olivier]], [[Charles Johnman]], [[Miemie de Bruyn]], [[Kitty Roux]], [[Johan Liebetrau]], [[Chris Botha]]. |
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| + | In March 1968 the play was presented by [[University Theatre Stellenbosch|Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]], produced by [[Jocelyn de Bruyn]], starring Guma Oresta, [[Annelize van der Ryst]], Gretchen Holzapfel, [[Johan Esterhuizen]], Frikkie Engels, Fred Nel, Fred Stephens and [[John Cartwright]]. | ||
Translated into Afrikaans by *** as ''[[Minnaar onder die Wapen]]'' ("Lover in Arms") and performed by [[NTO]] in 1949, directed by ** and featuring ***with, among others, [[Pikkie van Niekerk]], [[Berdine Grünewald]] and [[André Huguenet]]. | Translated into Afrikaans by *** as ''[[Minnaar onder die Wapen]]'' ("Lover in Arms") and performed by [[NTO]] in 1949, directed by ** and featuring ***with, among others, [[Pikkie van Niekerk]], [[Berdine Grünewald]] and [[André Huguenet]]. | ||
Revision as of 16:19, 8 January 2014
Arms and the Man (1894) by George Bernard Shaw. A popular comic satire on war, about a soldier who carried chocolates rather than arms to the front. The source of the comic opera The Chocolate Soldier. * Produced by the Cape Town Repertory Society in the Little Theatre, 28-29 July, 1933, directed by J.E.H. Duckworth.
Produced by Mary Holder in 1941 for the University of Cape Town Dramatic Society with Peggy Goodman, Leonard Schach, Ada Kaplan, Elizabeth Bushell, Donald Inskip, John Burnett, John Walker.
Produced by Joyce Burch with the Stellenbosch University Speech-Training Students in the Little Theatre in 1944, with Johanna Olivier, Charles Johnman, Miemie de Bruyn, Kitty Roux, Johan Liebetrau, Chris Botha.
In March 1968 the play was presented by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in the H.B. Thom Theatre, produced by Jocelyn de Bruyn, starring Guma Oresta, Annelize van der Ryst, Gretchen Holzapfel, Johan Esterhuizen, Frikkie Engels, Fred Nel, Fred Stephens and John Cartwright.
Translated into Afrikaans by *** as Minnaar onder die Wapen ("Lover in Arms") and performed by NTO in 1949, directed by ** and featuring ***with, among others, Pikkie van Niekerk, Berdine Grünewald and André Huguenet.
In 1991 Blaise Koch won the Fleur du Cap for Best Supporting Actor Award role in this play.
Sources
Trek, 12 September 1941, 16.
Trek 8(26):18, 1944.
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