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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
1974: Staged by [[PACT]], directed by [[Ken Leach]], with [[Michael McCabe]] (Reese), [[Hal Orlandini]] (credited as Harold Orlandini) (Orderly), [[Michael Mayer]] (Miles), [[Graham Haley]] (Rhodes),  
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1974: Staged by [[PACT]], directed by [[Ken Leach]], with [[Michael McCabe]] (Reese), [[Hal Orlandini]] (credited as Harold Orlandini) (Orderly), [[Michael Mayer]] (Miles), [[Graham Haley]] (Rhodes), [[Kenneth Hendel]] (Dr Freytag), [[Hugh Rouse]] (The General), [[Albert Raphael]] (The Aide),  
  
  

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The Happiness Cage is a 1970 play by American playwright Dennis J. Reardon (1944- ) [1].

Synopsis

Set in 1960s USA, patients in a Vietnam War veterans hospital are induced to participate in a programme of experimental brain implantation designed to achieve conformable neurological happiness. One resists, preferring the limitations with his own identity to the technologically achievable bliss. [2]

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Performance history in South Africa

1974: Staged by PACT, directed by Ken Leach, with Michael McCabe (Reese), Hal Orlandini (credited as Harold Orlandini) (Orderly), Michael Mayer (Miles), Graham Haley (Rhodes), Kenneth Hendel (Dr Freytag), Hugh Rouse (The General), Albert Raphael (The Aide),


Sources

PACT theatre programme, 1974.

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