The Chalk Garden
The Chalk Garden is a playby Enid Bagnold (1889-1981)[1].
Contents
The original text
First produced in London in 1955.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1959: Directed by Leonard Schach for the Cockpit Players at the Hofmeyr Theatre, February 1959, with Eveline Garrett, Heather Lloyd-Jones, Eric Messiter and Daphne Riggs. Decor by Bruce Palmer.
1959: Produced by the Brian Brooke Company at the Brooke Theatre, Johannesburg, also in 1959.
1968: Directed by Simon Swindell for CAPAB, opening in the Hofmeyr Theatre on 15 June 1968, after having toured widely in the Cape Province since 30 April, with Yvonne Bryceland (Miss Madrigal), Norman Coombes (Maitland), Cheryl Heath (Laurel), Joyce Bradley (Mrs St Maugham), Shirley Rautenbach (The Applicant), Lorna Robertson (The Nurse), Val Donald (Olivia), Elliot Playfair (The Judge). Set designed by Keith Anderson, stage manager Brian Kennedy.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Bagnold
Teater SA, 1(1), 1968.
The Chalk Garden theatre programme, 1968.
Inskip, 1977. 122.
Tucker, 1997. 122.
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