Quality Street

Quality Street is a play by Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie (1860-1937)[1] .

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1904: Performed for the first time in South Africa by Sass and Nelson company, performing inter alia at the Opera House, Cape Town, in August.

1941: Presented by Marda Vanne and Gwen ffrangçon-Davies starring Cecil Williams and Lydia Lindeque in 1941 in Cape Town and at the Standard Theatre Johannesburg.

1941: Presented by the University of Cape Town’s Speech and Drama Department and its University Dramatic Society at the Little Theatre in June, directed by Ruth Peffers.

196*: Performed by Hoër Meisieskool Oranje [2] in Bloemfontein, featuring Reza de Wet.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Barrie

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

Trek, 12 September 1941, 16.

Inskip, Donald P. 1972. Forty Little Years: The Story of a Theatre. Cape Town: Howard Timmins: p.126.

Percy Tucker. 1997. Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press: p.19.

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