Mickey Kannis Caught my Eye

by Geraldine Aron. Aron’s first play to be set in South Africa, a pessimistic but engrossing and sympathetic study of a man’s decision to abandon his dreams under the pressure of reality. First staged in 1978 as part of a double bill at The Space (Cape Town) with Robert Patrick’s My Cup Ranneth Over. Directed by Jenny Pichanick and Alyce Sylva, with Gillian Burl, Andrea Fine, Errol Hart, Jenny Pichanick, Corinne Willoughby and John Worsley. Design by Alan Pool and stage management by Tony Voss and Arthur Benjamin.

Directed by Themi Venturas and performed by post-graduate students from the Department of Speech and Drama, University of Natal (Durban) at the National Arts Festival Fringe, 1984.

First published in Theatre Two: New South African Drama (Ed. S. Gray), 1981, and subsequently in Seven Plays and Four Monologues, David Philip, 1985. Televised by the SABC with ** in the lead roles in 198*.

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