Man With a Load of Mischief
Man With A Load of Mischief. A Comedy in Three Acts by Ashley Dukes. Published in Contemporary British Dramatists, Volume XV. Ernest Benn Ltd. 1925.
Translations and adaptations
Later made into a popular musical, which opened Off Broadway in 1966.
Performance history in South Africa
Play first performed in South Africa by ** with Gay Gibson and Eric Boon in 1946?/7?. [**Evidence from a a British crime report on the murder of Gibson]
The Man with a Load of Mischief, by Ashley Dukes. Produced by Leon Burman for the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society in the Little Theatre, Aug 1943, starring I.M. Grusd, Marion Pritchard, Kenneth Taylor, N.G. Watermeyer, Billie Jones, Kathleen Lee.
Sources
Trek , 8(4):16, 1943.
Inskip, 1972.
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