Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier. When published in 1938, du Maurier became – to her great surprise – one of the most popular authors of the day. Du Maurier herself adapted Rebecca as a stage play in 1939; it had a successful London run in 1940 of over 350 performances, and and made into a very succcessful film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.
Productions in South Africa include:
Presented by African Consolidated Theatres, produced by Minna Schneier at the Standard Theatre in September 1944, featuring Taubie Kushlick, Frank Douglass, Shirley Wakefield, Bruce Meredith-Smith and by René Ahrenson at the Alhambra Theatre in Cape Town with Durban actress Lorraine Ellis, Bruce Meredith Smith, Norman Hackworth, Violet Dunlop, Mary Kay, Reg Wilkinson, Nathan Jacobsohn, Charles Marais, Donald Inskip.
In 1978/9 NAPAC did the play, with Lois Butlin as “Mrs De Winter” .
Sources
South African Opinion, 1(8), 1944. 20 and 1(12), 1945. 20; Trek, 9(15):18, 1945.
SACD 1974, 1979/80;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(novel)
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