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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| − | 1951: First staged in South Africa by the [[University Players]], starring [[Philip | + | 1951: First staged in South Africa by the [[University Players]], starring [[Philip Birkinshaw]], [[Molly Seftel]] and [[Margaret Inglis]]. |
1956: The [[Arena Theatre Company]], with [[Jenny Gratus]], [[Robert Lang]] and [[Will Jamieson]]), | 1956: The [[Arena Theatre Company]], with [[Jenny Gratus]], [[Robert Lang]] and [[Will Jamieson]]), | ||
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by Christopher Fry. A popular verse play about Joan of Arc. Premiered at an Arts Theatre private club in London in 1949 starring Alec Clunes, who had also commissioned it. Later that year John Gielgud took the play on a provincial tour followed by a successful London run at the Globe Theatre.
Performance history in South Africa
1951: First staged in South Africa by the University Players, starring Philip Birkinshaw, Molly Seftel and Margaret Inglis.
1956: The Arena Theatre Company, with Jenny Gratus, Robert Lang and Will Jamieson),
197*: the Langford-Inglis Company and NAPAC, directed by Margaret Inglis, with Michael Atkinson and Nan Munro),
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady's_Not_for_Burning
Leonard Schach (Helikon, 2(10):65).
Tucker, 1997
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