The Dove Returns
The Dove Returns, a verse drama in three acts by Guy Butler (1918-2001).
The original text
The farmhouse of a Boer family is being burnt down; Emily Hobhouse is one of the characters in the play.
Published in Cape Town by A.A. Balkema and in London by Fortune Press, 1956.
South African productions
1955: Produced by National Theatre Organisation, directed by Clifford Williams, with Zoë de Villiers, Frank Wise, Alan Chadwick, Joanna Douglas, Leonard Graham, Brian Proudfoot, Aubrey Louw and Peter Boyce.
Sources
Lantern, 5(3):283-287. Feb 1956.
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