After the Fall
After the Fall by Arthur Miller.
Performance history in South Africa
Leonard Schach was involved in the Broadway debut of this production and had befriended Miller. He obtained the rights to the play and produced it, with Leon Gluckman, just months after its Broadway premiere, in Wits University Great Hall Johannesburg as part of the Johannesburg Festival and Luxurama Theatre, Cape Town (Cockpit Players) in 1964 for multi-racial audiences. This was the last play directed by Leonard Schach prior to settling in Israel. The cast included Joyce Bradley, Leon Gluckman (Three Leaf Arts Award as Best Actor, 1965), Robert Aden, Michael Drin, Jane Fenn, Liz Francis, Mary Miller, Joanna Palmer, Helga Saunders, Roger Spence, Simon Swindell and Erica Rogers. It was part of the Johannesburg Festival and staged at the University Great Hall and then at the Luxurama in Cape Town
Schach directed four more productions of After the Fall: In Israel, Brussels, London and again in South Africa in 1981 as PACT’s opening production at the Pretoria State Theatre, starring American Brian Murray and Erica Rogers.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
Inskip, 1977. p 123.
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