Candida
Candida (1895) by George Bernard Shaw. ***
Performance history in South Africa
Performed by the Unie-debatsvereniging in Stellenbosch, with Anna Neethling-Pohl in the lead on 16th June 1927.
Presented in English by the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society in the Hiddingh Hall in 1928, produced by W.A. Sewell, also in the role of Eugene, Southwell Jones as Burgess.
The NTO produced the play in 1950, with an all-Afrikaans cast, consisting of Hendrik Hanekom, Pikkie van Niekerk, Gerrit Wessels, Michal Grobbelaar, Philippa Conradie and Laurie van der Merwe. Repeated by them in 1956.
Presented by CAPAB, 1968.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
The Mime, 1(2), 1928.
CAPAB List of Plays Presented, 1971.
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