The Dove Returns

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The Dove Returns, a verse drama in three acts by Guy Butler (1918-2001).

The original text

The farmhouse of a Boer family is being burnt down; Emily Hobhouse is one of the characters in the play.

Published in Cape Town by A.A. Balkema and in London by Fortune Press, 1956.

South African productions

1955: Produced by National Theatre Organisation, directed by Clifford Williams, with Zoë de Villiers, Frank Wise, Alan Chadwick, Joanna Douglas, Leonard Graham, Brian Proudfoot, Aubrey Louw and Peter Boyce.

Sources

Lantern, 5(3):283-287. Feb 1956.

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