The Lady's not for Burning

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by Christopher Fry. A popular verse play about Joan of Arc. Premiered at an Arts Theatre private club in London in 1949 starring Alec Clunes, who had also commissioned it. Later that year John Gielgud took the play on a provincial tour followed by a successful London run at the Globe Theatre.

Performance history in South Africa

1951: First staged in South Africa by the University Players, starring Philip Birkinshaw, Molly Seftel and Margaret Inglis.

1956: The Arena Theatre Company, with Jenny Gratus, Robert Lang and Will Jamieson),

197*: the Langford-Inglis Company and NAPAC, directed by Margaret Inglis, with Michael Atkinson and Nan Munro),

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady's_Not_for_Burning

Leonard Schach (Helikon, 2(10):65).

Tucker, 1997

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