Run for your Wife
Run for your Wife!, a farce by Ray Cooney.
Performance history in South Africa
Performed at the Baxter Theatre in 1984 and 1985, with Michael Richard, Louise Saint Claire, Clare Marshall, Errol Hart, Mark Hardy, Paul Abrams, George Korelin and Rex Garner, directed by Rex Garner.
Translations and adaptations
Translated intoAfrikaans by Peet van Rensburg as My Vrou se Man se Vrou.
Presented by PACOFS in 1987, directed by Pierre van Pletzen with Michele Burgers, Gerben Kamper.
A PACT production in 1990 was directed by Pierre van Pletzen assisted by André-Jacques van der Merwe starring Elzette Maarschalk, Hélène Truter, Gustav Geldenhuys, André-Jacques van der Merwe, Hannes Muller, Percy Pretorius, Johan Malherbe, Tjaart Potgieter. Design by Johan Badenhorst, lighting by Jacques Mulder. The set was built in the PACOFS workshops and made available for this production.
Pierre van Pletzen (by arrangement with PACT) directed a CAPAB production opening 14 May 1991 at the Nico Malan Theatre starring Fiona Coyne, Hélène Truter, Gustav Geldenhuys, Johann Myburgh, Percy Pretorius, Peter Butler, Neels Coetzee. Design by Johan Badenhorst, lighting by Malcolm Hurrell. The decor set was on loan from PACOFS. This production toured to Stellenbosch, Robertson, Swellendam, Oudtshoorn, George, Caledon, Hermanus, Strand, Bellville and Athlone.
Directed by Pierre van Pletzen, presented at the Arena, State Theatre in 1999 starring Sean Else, Sandra Vaughan, Thomaley van Niekerk, Pierre van Pletzen, Neels Coetzee, Christo Compion, Jacques Gombault. Followed by performances at the Witbank Theatre, Rustenburg Theatre, Springs City Theatre, Johannes Stegmann Theatre in Secunda.
Produced by Lefra Produksies in 2012.
Sources
My Vrou se Man se Vrou theatre programmes 1990 (PACT), 1991.
PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988
Beeld 12 February 1999.
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