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Latest revision as of 13:56, 21 June 2018
Butterflies are Free is a play by American playwright, screenwriter, and lyricist Leonard Gershe [1] (1922-2000).
After twelve previews, the Broadway production, directed by Milton Katselas, opened on October 21, 1969 at the Booth Theatre.
Loosely based on the life of attorney Harold Krents, the plot revolves around a Manhattan blind man whose controlling mother disapproves of his relationship with a free-spirited hippie.
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1970: Presented by Michael Brooke [at an unknown theatre] directed by Brian Brooke and Petrina Fry, 1970, starring Margaret Fry, Bruce Millar, Jennifer Sinclair-David.
Directed by Ray Tunmer for the Grahamstown Amateur Dramatic Society. Year unknown.
2005: Presented at Liberty Life Theatre on the Square with Duncan Lawson, Clare Marshall ( as the mother), Bianca Jane and Christopher Beasley.
Sources
Wikipedia [2].
Material re Michael Brooke production held by NELM: [Collection: KORT, Maurice]: 2012. 379. 7. 66 and [Collection: Theatre programmes]: 2009. 80. 10.
Theatre programme (GADS) held by NELM: [Collection: THEATRE PROGRAMMES]: 2012. 285. 1. 43.
Review by Mary Jordan, Business Day, 19 August 2005.
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