Paradise is Closing Down

by Pieter-Dirk Uys. A play about life in Long Street, Cape Town.

The original text

First produced in 1977 at the Grahamstown Festival.

First published in Theatre One (ed Stephen Gray) by Ad Donker, 1981. Also published in Paradise is Closing Down & other Plays by Penguin.

Translations and adaptations

1980 Granada TV: Estelle Kohler, Naomi Buch, Shelley Borkum – dir: Howard Baker.

Performance history in South Africa

First produced in 1977 at the Grahamstown Festival and on tour with Val de Klerk, Melanie-Anne Asher (*sic - is this Melanie-Ann Sher? Given this way by Uys in his list of plays), Christine Basson, William Meyer – Directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys. 1977 Market Theatre, with Val de Klerk, Melanie-Ann Sher, Magda Beukes, William Meyer – Directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys.

1978 Edinburgh Festival and London: Naomi Buch, Barbara Kinghorn, Helen Bourne, Frank Williams – dir: Roberta Durrant

Staged, together with God’s Forgotten and Karnaval ("The Cape Town Trilogy"), in July 1995 by the newly formed A Company of Actors in the Dock Road Theatre and in August 1995 in the Youth Theatre at the Civic Theatre, directed by Mark Graham, with Lynne Maree, Theresa van As, Shaun Arnolds and Lynita Crofford.

Sources

http://pdu.co.za/works.html

Tucker, 1997.

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