Jill Gerard

GERARD [GIRARD?], Jill. (19*-) Director. * Initally working with Joyce Levinsohn, she sought to resurrect theatre for children, after the demise of the Children's Theatre Organization. They initally worked under the name of the Children's Theatre, doing The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen at the Sandown Hall in 1980, an Easter holiday production, Tales of Beatrix Potter at the Intimate Theatre in 1983, The Wizard of Oz and Aladdin at the Intimate Theatre in 1986 and an adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories in the old elephant house at the Johannesburg Zoo in the same year. She then went on to form her own company, People's Theatre, based at the Intimate Theatre. They presented Winnie the Pooh and The Wizard of Oz in 1991, Peter Pan in 1992 and with the backing of Nedbank and Penguin Publishers, she took a tour of Peter Rabbit and Other Tales to Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban in 1993. (Tucker, 1997)

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