See How They Run

See How They Run is an English comedy in three acts by Philip King. Its title is a line from the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice. It is considered a farce for its tense comic situations and headlong humour, heavily playing on mistaken identity, doors, and vicars. In 1955 it was adapted as a film starring Roland Culver. His play was first staged by Henry Kendall at the Peterborough Rep in 1944 prior to a British tour as an entertainment for the troops.

Performance history in South Africa

Produced at His Majesty’s Theatre by Brian Brooke in 1950. Presented by CAPAB English Drama in the Nico Malan Theatre in February 1973, directed by Roger Dwyer.

Presented by Pieter Toerien in 1988, directed by Rex Garner, starring Garner, Mark Richardson, Anne Power, Patricia Sanders, George Korelin, Kate Edwards, Graham Hopkins, Errol Hart and Tim Welsh. Lighting design by Jannie Swanepoel, set design by Kay Page, costumes by Alison Yates.

Translations and adaptations

An Afrikaans translation by Pieter Fourie, Kyk Hoe Hol Hulle was presented by CAPAB in 1983 under the direction of Fourie, starring Christine Basson, Mary Dreyer, Neels Coetzee, Pieter Joubert, Marthinus Basson, Tjaart Potgieter. Decor and costumes by Penny Simpson, lighting by Malcolm Hurrell.

Fourie directed Kyk Hoe Hol Hulle for PACOFS in 1986, with Annemarie Rauh, Blaise Koch, Michele Burgers, Shaleen Surtie-Richards.

Sources

PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_How_They_Run_(play)

Nico Malan Theatre Centre pamphlet

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