The Man (by Mel Dinelli)
The Man is a 1950 play by American playwright Mel Dinelli (1912-1991) [1].
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The play is based on "To Find Help", a short story by Dinelli, and made its debut on Broadway in 1950. It was later turned into a film, Beware, My Lovely (19**).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1961: Staged by the Durban Lyric Theatre Company, directed by Kenneth Baker, with Patricia Sanders (Mrs Gillis), Diana Tullis (Ruth), Brian Lawson (Armstrong), Charles Vernon (Wilton), Gordon Atkins (Franks), Maurice Orden (Doug), and Kenneth Baker (Stevens).
Sources
Durban Lyric Theatre Company programme, 1961.
Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.
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