Doctor on the Boil
Doctor on the Boil is a comic novel by Richard Gordon (pen name of English surgeon and anaesthetist Gordon Ostiere, born 1921, [1]).
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Adapted for the stage by Ted Willis (1914-1992)[2]. (this could not be confirmed).
Performance history in South Africa
1979: Presented at the Academy Theatre in December 1979, directed by Rex Garner, starring visiting British actor Geoffrey Sumner and a local cast including Brenda Wood, Tina Witkowska and Olive King.
Sources
NELM: [Collection: KING, Olive]: 2006. 1. 1. 7.
Tucker, 1997. 375.
The Rand Daily Mail, 16 November 1979.
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