University Players
University Players, University of the Witwatersrand in The Vikings of Helgeland (1929?), in which a six-year old Moira Lister made her debut. The University Players: Christopher Fry’s The Lady's not for Burning was staged in 1951 starring Margaret Inglis, Molly Seftel, and Philip Birkinshaw. Taubie Kushlick had a huge success with her production of Dark of the Moon on behalf of the University Players in the Fifties.
The newly established University Players presented three performances of The Tempest at the Palladium Theatre, Johannesburg, in 1923. Incidental music was played by an ensemble of six which included Prof Percival Kirby, head of the Dept of Music. *
Sources
Percy Tucker, 1997
Teaterforum, 4(1), 1983, 113.
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