Walmer Dramatic Society

The Walmer Dramatic Society was restarted by Mrs Elaine Tasker, formerly Miss Elaine English, when she came to Port Elizabeth in January 1946 as a speech training and dramatic art teacher for the Collegiate School for Girls. The chairman of the Dramatic Section of the club was Oxley Barnard.

Contribution to South African Theatre

June 26 - 28, 1947: The Walmer Club (Port Elizabeth) staged JB Priestley's They Came to a City at the Walmer Town Hall. Produced by Elaine Tasker who also starred as "Alice Foster". Other actors included Jimmy Tasker as "Joe Dinmore," Dick Hidden as "Fred Cudworth," Mrs H S Exley as "Mrs Batley," Patricia Boswell as "?," Denniss Ruck as "her hen-pecked husband," and Elizabeth Holliday as "Lady Loxfield," Renee Benjamin as "Phillipa," and F N Ward-Able as "Sir George Gedney". BM Woods and J Heath were responsible for the setting and decor.

September 1947: The Walmer Dramatic Society, a section of the Walmer Club, staged Noel Coward's play Hay Fever. Produced by Leonard Symes and starring Mr and Mrs Laurie Leppan, Cynthia Brodie, Mervyn Brodie, Sheila Thorp, J H Fisher, George Jones, Maureen Daniell and Millicent Burns.

Source

Saturday Post, March 29, 1947.

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