Walmer Dramatic Society
The Walmer Dramatic Society was restarted by Mrs Elaine Tasker, formerly Miss Elaine English, when she came to Port Elizabeth in January 1946 as a speech training and dramatic art teacher for the Collegiate School for Girls. The chairman of the Dramatic Section of the club was Oxley Barnard.
Contribution to South African Theatre
June 26 - 28, 1947: The Walmer Club (Port Elizabeth) staged JB Priestley's They Came to a City at the Walmer Town Hall. Produced by Elaine Tasker who also starred as "Alice Foster". Other actors included Jimmy Tasker as "Joe Dinmore," Dick Hidden as "Fred Cudworth," Mrs H S Exley as "Mrs Batley," Patricia Boswell as "?," Denniss Ruck as "her hen-pecked husband," and Elizabeth Holliday as "Lady Loxfield," Renee Benjamin as "Phillipa," and F N Ward-Able as "Sir George Gedney". BM Woods and J Heath were responsible for the setting and decor.
Source
Saturday Post, March 29, 1947.
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