Sixteen

A play by Aimée (1887-1981) and Philip Stuart wriiten in 1943. It was translated and given a South African topography by Leonie Pienaar with the title Sestien. It is the study of the impact on an adolescent girl of her mother’s remarriage.

Produced by Pienaar and presented by the speech-training students of the University of Cape Town, featuring Hester Potgieter, Juliana Oosthuizen, Lily Sarembock, Grace Bernberg. Décor devised by Décor Club, executed by Cecil Pym. First night Sept 18 1941.

Produced in English by Dorothy Kendal Grimston for the Rondebosch Parish Dramatic Society, 1945. Cast Madeleine Legge, Gordon Bridger, Diana Johnson, James March, Pat Embling and Nan Hobson.

Sources

Trek, 26 September 1941, 19.

Trek, 19(12):24, 1945.

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