Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man (1894) by George Bernard Shaw. A popular comic satire on war, about a soldier who carried chocolates rather than arms to the front. The source of the comic opera The Chocolate Soldier. *
Performance history in South Africa
Produced by the Cape Town Repertory Society in the Little Theatre, 28-29 July, 1933, directed by J.E.H. Duckworth.
Produced by Mary Holder in 1941 for the University of Cape Town Dramatic Society with Peggy Goodman, Leonard Schach, Ada Kaplan, Elizabeth Bushell, Donald Inskip, John Burnett, John Walker.
Produced by Joyce Burch with the Stellenbosch University Speech-Training Students in the Little Theatre in 1944, with Johanna Olivier, Charles Johnman, Miemie de Bruyn, Kitty Roux, Johan Liebetrau, Chris Botha.
In March 1968 the play was presented by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in the H.B. Thom Theatre, produced by Jocelyn de Bruyn, starring Guma Oresta, Annelize van der Ryst, Gretchen Holzapfel, Johan Esterhuizen, Frikkie Engels, Fred Nel, Fred Stephens and John Cartwright.
PACOFS 1983, directed by Desmond Hughes, starring Michele Burgers and Michael Maxwell.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans by *** as Minnaar onder die Wapen ("Lover in Arms") and performed by NTO in 1949, directed by ** and featuring ***with, among others, Pikkie van Niekerk, Berdine Grünewald and André Huguenet.
In 1991 Blaise Koch won the Fleur du Cap for Best Supporting Actor Award role in this play.
Sources
Trek, 12 September 1941, 16.
Trek 8(26):18, 1944.
PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988.
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