Saint Joan

Saint Joan by G.B.Shaw . ** Produced by NTO in 1959, with Afrikaans actress Kita Redelinghuys in the lead. The cast also included Harold Lake, David Herbert, Ivor van Rensburg, Siegfried Mynhardt, Frank Wise, Walter Glennie, Ivor Kruger, Michael Preston, Tone Brulin, Noël Borain, Pietro Nolte, Helene de Jong, John Boulter, Innes Hirson, Jimmy Mentis, Alfred Stretton. Décor and costumes by Frank Graves and Doreen Graves.

Johanna, die Soldaat van God, W.E.G. Louw's slightly abbreviated translation of Saint Joan opened at the Bellville Civic Centre on 21 September 1960. The guest director was Fred Engelen of Belgium, whose wife Tine Balder played the titel role.

Sources

Lantern, 9(2):192-197, 208.

Grütter, Wilhelm, CAPAB 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research.

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