People are Living There
People are Living There by Athol Fugard. ***
First published by Buren in 1969.
Performance history in South Africa
First performed in ** by ***. Revived in 1969 by Peter Curtis, manager of English drama of the the state-funded Cape Performing Arts Board under the direction of Athol Fugard, with Yvonne Bryceland as “Milly” and Bill Flynn (Ken Leach?) as “Shorty”, Don played by the author and Sissy by Gillian Garlick, opening at the Hofmeyr Theatre on 14 June 1969. It was taken on tour of the country in conjunction with the other PAC’s, ?*.
Athol Fugard's People are living there, presented by CAPAB c.1967 (Theatre programme, NELM)
Presented around 1969/70 by PACT/CAPAB in association with Phoenix Players at the Alexander Theatre. Directed by Athol Fugard. Cast - Milly: Yvonne Bryceland. Don: Athol Fugard. Shorty: Ken Leach. Sissy: Gillian Garlick. Set designed by Keith Anderson. Costumes designed by Jennifer Craig. Company manager was Dale Cutts, stage manager David McBirnie, assistant stage manager Glynn Day. Set constructed and painted by Keith Anderson Productions. Production photographer Brian Astbury.
Directed by Francois Swart for PACT, 1971.
Produced at The Space (Cape Town) in 1972, directed by Bill Tanner, with Yvonne Bryceland, Bill Flynn, Jacqui Singer and Paul Slabolepszy; designer Axel Pedersen; stage manager Bee Berman. Also ran on three further occasions at The Space (Cape Town) in 197*, with Yvonne Bryceland, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Glynn Day, Wilson Dunster, Andrea Fine and Fiona Stuart-White.
Danny Keogh starred in The Company’s presentation of Barney Simon’s revival of People are Living There with Wilson Dunster, Vanessa Cooke and Yvonne Bryceland at The Market Theatre in 1977.
In May 1989 the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department presented the play at the Libertas Theatre during the Lanzerac Stellenbosch Festival. The director was Noël Roos and the cast were Catherine Fenix, Arnold Hoon, Waldi Schultz and Tanya Swanepoel.
Performed in the Baxter Theatre in 1995, directed by Christopher Weare with Brenda Wood, Jonathan Pienaar, Marguerite Albrecht and Pierre Neethling.
Staged in The Civic in February 1997, directed by Dorothy-Ann Gould, with Sandra Prinsloo, Justin Cohen, Byron Mondahl and Celia Steyn-Craddock.
The Market Theatre and the Windybrow Theatre by arrangement with DALRO (Pty) Limited presented the play in the Barney Simon Theatre directed by André Odendaal starring Anna-Mart van der Merwe (Milly), Carel Nel, Dania Gelderblom, Francois Jacobs 22 Apr 2015 - 24 May 2015.
Translations and adaptations
Afrikaans translation by Marko van der Colff: Daar Leef Mense Daar, produced by CAPAB, opening on 20 August 1982 at the Nico Malan Theatre with subsequent performances at the H.B. Thom Theatre, the Monument Theatre in Grahamstown and the Savoy Theatre in Port Elizabeth in September 1982. Athol Fugard directed, assisted by Rozelle Vogelman. Decor and costumes by Penny Simpson, lighting by Malcolm Hurrell. The cast: Lida Meiring (Milly), David van der Merwe (Shorty), Marthinus Basson (Don) and Lisa-Maria Fugard (Sissy).
Sources
Programme notes of the production in 1969/70 at the Alexander Theatre.
Teater SA, 1(4), 1969.
Weekly Mail, 24-30 March 1995.
Astbury, 1979.
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