Aladdin

One of the most popular themes for pantomime and children’s plays. In South Africa many versions have been done. E.g. by the Empire Theatre in 1945 (starring Ivy Tresmand); by Maralin Vanrenen in 1984, with what they called “a Cape flavour” with Dale Cutts, Charles Comyn, Adrienne Pearce, Peter Crummeck*?, Jennifer Ferguson, Peter Butler, Mike Chase, Baxter, 1984. Marilyn Taylors’ musical band; by Joyce Levinsohn and Jill Gerard at the Intimate Theatre in 1986; by Janice Honeyman (who wrote and directed the text, again with a South African slant?*) for PACT in 1988, and again in *****. Janice Honeyman’s version A Lad ‘n’ a Lamp. Another version by Janice Honeyman was translated by Nerine Ferreira in ****. Another pantomime version by De Wet Laubscher in ****.

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