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| − | ''Tramway Road'' | + | ''[[Tramway Road]]'' is a play by Cape Town-born British playwright [[Ronald Harwood]] (1934-). First performed at the Lyric Theatre, London, 23 October 1984 with Freddie Jones, [[Richard Grant|Richard E. Grant]], William Vanderpuye, and Annette Crosbie. The play is set in 1951, one year after the Population Registration Act was passed in South Africa. Tramway Road had a special notoriety for all those who lived in Sea Point, a white residential suburb of Cape Town. It also exerts its influence over all the characters in this play: an expatriate English couple, Arthur and Dora Langley; Emil, a young man with dreams of becoming an actor in London; and Jacob, a Cape Coloured house servant who is king of his local Coon Carnival troupe. Tramway Road, and all that it represents, inevitably shatters their hopes, their peace and their ideals. Published by Amber Lane Press, 1984. |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 16:21, 7 February 2018
Tramway Road is a play by Cape Town-born British playwright Ronald Harwood (1934-). First performed at the Lyric Theatre, London, 23 October 1984 with Freddie Jones, Richard E. Grant, William Vanderpuye, and Annette Crosbie. The play is set in 1951, one year after the Population Registration Act was passed in South Africa. Tramway Road had a special notoriety for all those who lived in Sea Point, a white residential suburb of Cape Town. It also exerts its influence over all the characters in this play: an expatriate English couple, Arthur and Dora Langley; Emil, a young man with dreams of becoming an actor in London; and Jacob, a Cape Coloured house servant who is king of his local Coon Carnival troupe. Tramway Road, and all that it represents, inevitably shatters their hopes, their peace and their ideals. Published by Amber Lane Press, 1984.
Performance history in South Africa
A Baxter Company '85 production directed by Leonard Schach, presented at the Baxter Theatre was first performed on 20 March 1985. Cast: Keith Grenville, David Dennis, Soli Philander, Brenda Wood. Design by Peter Krummeck. Lighting and assistant to the director Per-Olof Fernlund.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://www.stageplays.com/products/tramway_road/Ronald%20Harwood
Tramway Road theatre programme, 1985.
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.
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