Rookery Nook
Rookery Nook is a farce by the English playwright Ben Travers based on his own 1923 novel. It was first given at the Aldwych Theatre, London in 1926, the third in the series of twelve Aldwych farces presented by the actor-manager Tom Walls at the theatre between 1923 and 1933. The action takes place on a summer night in the lounge-hall of "Rookery Nook", a house at Chumpton-on-Sea, Somerset.
Performance history in South Africa
Directed by Nigel Hawthorne and Aubrey Louw for the Cockpit Players at the Hofmeyr Theatre, December 1960, starring Joyce Bradley, Nigel Hawthorne, Estelle Kohler, Aubrey Louw, Reinet Maasdorp, Michael McGovern, Flora McKenna, Siegfried Mynhardt and Nanette Rennie. Decor by Pamela Lewis and Giuseppe Cappon.
The play was presented by PACT at the Intimate Theatre, Johannesburg and the National Theatre, Pretoria and taken on tour in the Transvaal and the Free State in 1963-1964. It was directed by Siegfried Mynhardt and the cast included Patricia Sanders, George Lane, Arthur Hall and Fiona Fraser.
A CAPAB production of the play was presented at the Bloemfontein Civic Theatre, with Lois Butlin, John Whiteley, Colin Duell, Paddy Canavan, David Crichton, Pamela Buchner, Mary Dreyer, Patti Canning, Simon Swindell and Bill Jervis in the cast in 1975.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rookery_Nook_(play)
PACT report 1963/64
Inskip, 1977. p 123
(Africa-Wide) NELM [Collection: DICKERSON, Beth]: 2009. 118. 6. 3
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