Paradise is Closing Down
by Pieter-Dirk Uys. A play about life in Long Street, Cape Town. First produced in 1977 at the Grahamstown Festival and on tour with Val de Klerk, Melanie-Anne Asher (*sic - is this Melanie-Ann Sher? Given this way by Uys in his list of plays), Christine Basson, William Meyer – Directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys. 1977 Market Theatre, with Val de Klerk, Melanie-Ann Sher, Magda Beukes, William Meyer – Directed by Pieter-Dirk Uys. 1978 Edinburgh Festival and London: Naomi Buch, Barbara Kinghorn, Helen Bourne, Frank Williams – dir: Roberta Durrant 1980 Granada TV: Estelle Kohler, Naomi Buch, Shelley Borkum – dir: Howard Baker. First published in Theatre One (ed Stephen Gray) by Ad Donker, 1981. Also published in Paradise is Closing Down & other Plays by Penguin.
Staged, together with God’s Forgotten and Karnaval ("The Cape Town Trilogy"), in July 1995 by the newly formed A Company of Actors in the Dock Road Theatre and in August 1995 in the Youth Theatre at the Civic Theatre, directed by Mark Graham.
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