Try for White
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Try for White, by Basil Warner. A play about miscegenation and the effects of this on families. First produced and directed by Leonard Schach for The Cockpit Players, Cape Town in 1959. Starring Nigel Hawthorne, ** The text was used as the basis for the script of a controversial film by Emil Noval and Jans Rautenbach, entitled Katrina (197*). The text is unpublished and housed with NELM in Grahamstown. An edited version of the text, based on the prompt text belonging to stage manager Paddy Canavan, was published in the South African Theatre Journal (2002)??***
Return to T
Return to South African Theatre Plays
Return to Main Page
