University of Cape Town Drama Department

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The beginnings

Ruth Pfeffer and her Drama School

Peffer's Drama School was founded in Cape Town by Ruth Peffer in 19**.

In 1938 students from the school did The Old Maid by Akins, under the direction of Leontine Sagan in the Little Theatre Cape Town. * Rosalie van der Gucht taught there when she first came to South Africa. **


The University of Cape Town Drama School

In 19** the Pfeffer Drama School became the Drama School of the University of Cape Town, with Ruth Peffer as first head. **


Sources

Donald Inskip, 197*

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