UCT Dramatic Society

The UCT Dramatic Society is a society founded at the University of Cape Town (UCT).

History

Originally founded in the 1930s, it used the Little Theatre on the Hiddingh Campus for most of its productions. All students - not simply Drama students - were able to participate in the productions. One such member was Roy Sargeant, who went on to become a prolific theatre director and, as Head of English Drama at the SABC, TV producer.

Productions

Among their many productions have been:

1936: The Distaff Side (directed by Ruth Cloete)

1938: Distinguished Gathering (directed by Betty Oliver)

1939: The Old Maid (with the University of Cape Town's Speech and Drama Department) (directed by Leontine Sagan); After October (directed by Wensley Pithey)

1944: The House in Fern Road; Meet Mrs Beeton' The Twelve-Pound Look

1946: Ah, Wilderness! ( produced by Mavis Solomon)

1947: The Adding Machine (directed by Cyril Chosack)

1948: Happy as Larry (directed by René Ahrenson)

1949: Cockpit (directed by Leonard Schach); 1066, and All That (directed by Helen Houghton)

1951: The Ascent of F6 (directed by Arnold Pearce); Dirty Hands (directed by Donald Inskip); Crime Passionel (directed by Donald Inskip)

1953: On the Frontier (directed by Donald Inskip)

1954: The Beautiful People (directed by Arnold Pearce); Lord Byron's Love Letter (directed by Arnold Pearce)

1955: Caligula (produced by Mavis Taylor)

1956: Spring 1600 (directed by Leonard Schach)

1957: The Typewriter (directed by Dorothy Fairlie)

1958: Improvisation, or, The Shepherd's Chameleon (produced by Percy Sieff)

1959: Masse-Mensch (directed by A. Chiat)

1960: Iphigenia in Tauris (directed by Robin Malan)

1961: The Angry Old Man (directed by Robin Malan)

1962: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (directed by Robin Malan)

1963: Krapp's Last Tape (directed by Edwin Polakow)

1964: A Taste of Honey (directed by Edwin Polakow)

1965: Aladdin (produced by Roy Sergeant and Keith Anderson); A Resounding Tinkle (directed by M. Katz); The Arab Party (directed by S. Siebert); The Lover (P. Grobbelaar)

1966: Volpone (directed by Roy Sargeant)

1968: La Musica (directed by Gay Morris); The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife (directed by Limpie Basson)

1970: Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (directed by Aubrey Berg)

1971: A New Way to Pay Old Debts (directed by David Lan)

1973: Butley (directed by Craig Curtis)

Sources

Trek 8(25):22, 1944.

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