Hay Fever

Hay Fever [1] is a 1924 comic play by English playwright Noël Coward [2].

Performance history in South Africa

1943: Presented by the Rondebosch Dramatic Society, with Diana Johnson, Gordon Bridger, Louise Dale-Kuys and others.

1944: Produced in Johannesburg by the Munro-Inglis Company.

1946: Presented by the Brian Brooke Company, produced by Brian Brooke in the Hofmeyr Hall in November. The cast consisted of Phyllis Meine, Eve van der Byl, Petrina Fry, Cynthia Klette, Michael Marais, Dorothy Kendal-Grimston, Brian Brooke, Sydney Welch and John McIntosh.

1974: Staged by PACT at the Alexander Theatre, directed by John Hussey, with Shelagh Holliday (Judith), John Hussey (David), Sally Ducrow (Sorrel), Richard Haines (Sandy), Eckard Rabe (Simon), Diane Wilson (Myra), James White (Richard), Annelisa Weiland (Jacky) and Pam Jacobs (Clara). Sets designed by Richard Cook and costumes designed by Christa Scholtz.

1977: Roy Sargeant directed a Rhodes University Drama Department production.

1978: Directed by Peter Curtis for CAPAB.

19**: Staged by NAPAC, directed by Anne Freed, with Margaret Inglis (Judith), Robert Langford (David), Margaret Milner-Smyth (Sorel), Ivor van Rensburg (Sandy), John Rogers (Simon), Lucille Henderson (Myra), Dale Cutts (Richard), Elaine Dyer (Jackie) and Helen Braithwaite (Clara). Sets and costumes designed by Gerry Strydom.

Sources

Trek, 8(13):18, 1943; 8(15):18, 1944; 11(10):18, 1946.

South African Opinion, 3(10):21, 1946.

PACT theatre programme, 1974.

NAPAC theatre programme (undated).

Grütter, Wilhelm, CAPAB 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research. p 90.

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