Pretoria Theatre for Children

Inspired by Cobie Court, the Pretoria Theatre for Children was founded in 1958 in the Baker Memorial Hall.

Productions

1959: Court also produced the first production for the PTC, Beauty is Fled by P.V. Carroll on 16/17 October 1959 with pupils of the Hatfield Primary School.

Other productions include: The Children of Camp Fortuna, The Princess of Tartary by Daniele Vare (Min Sack – prod).1959, Little Gipsy Gay by Molly Masters & Evelyn Wales, The Land of the Dragon by Madge Miller (Min Sack -prod) 1961. The Stranger by Brian Way.

1972: Tamburlane, the Mad Hen

1973: Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast

1974: The Story-Tellers

1975: Ten Magic Rubies

1976: Peter Pan

1977: Listen to the Wind

1978: How Jan Klaasens Cured the King

1980: Heidi

1981: The Amazing Adventures of Tambootie the Puppet

1982: The Tinder Box

1984: The Wizard of Oz

1985: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Macbeth - An Experimental Play (adapted and directed by Dirk Klopper, Piet van der Walt Theatre)

1987: Aladdin

Sources

Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.

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