Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man (1894) by George Bernard Shaw. A popular comic satire on war, about a soldier who carried chocolates rather than arms to the front. The source of the comic opera The Chocolate Soldier. * Produced by the Cape Town Repertory Society in the Little Theatre, 28-29 July, 1933, directed by J.E.H. Duckworth.

Produced by Mary Holder in 1941 for the University of Cape Town Dramatic Society with Peggy Goodman, Leonard Schach, Ada Kaplan, Elizabeth Bushell, Donald Inskip, John Burnett, John Walker.

Produced by Joyce Burch with the Stellenbosch University Speech-Training Students in the Little Theatre in 1944, with Johanna Olivier, Charles Johnman, Miemie de Bruyn, Kitty Roux, Johan Liebetrau, Chris Botha.

Translated into Afrikaans by *** as Minnaar onder die Wapen ("Lover in Arms") and performed by NTO in 1949, directed by ** and featuring ***with, among others, Pikkie van Niekerk, Berdine Grünewald and André Huguenet.

In 1991 Blaise Koch won the Fleur du Cap for Best Supporting Actor Award role in this play.

Sources

Trek, 12 September 1941, 16.

Trek 8(26):18, 1944.

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