Helena's Hope, Ltd
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A play by Stephen Black.
The original text
A hugely popular farce about the goldfields, which satirizes the individual capitalists, while employing a classical melodramatic plot.
Published in a collection Stephen Black: Three Plays, edited by Stephen Gray (Ad Donker 1984).
Adaptations and translations
Performance history in South Africa
1910: First performed by Stephen Black's own company in 1910, often repeated till the 1930s.
1917: Performed in the Standard Theatre, Johannesburg, in February, (by the Leonard Rayne Company??), featuring Martha van Hulsteyn.
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