Ladies in Retirement
Ladies in Retirement [1] is a 1940 play by English playwrights Edward Percy [2] and Reginald Denham [3]. The 1940 Broadway production starred Flora Robson in the lead role. Full-length. Cast: mixed.
Translations and adaptations
Afrikaans translation by Ben de Koker under the title Moord in Mooihawe. Published by DALRO in 1974 (ISBN:0-86064-123-9).
Performance history in South Africa
1942: Produced by Mary Holder for the Combined Dramatic Societies of Cape Town in the Little Theatre, with Margot Lassner (Ellen Creed), Violet Dunlop (Emily Creed), Estelle de Villiers, Minna Millsten (Leonora Fiske), Basil Warner (Albert), Pera Miller and Nell Angles.
1945: Produced by Margaret Inglis for the Munro-Inglis Company, starring Taubie Kushlick as Leonora Fiske.
1947: Presented by the Brian Brooke Company, produced by Will Jamieson, first at the Muizenberg Pavilion and in March at the Hofmeyr Hall, with Petrina Fry, Dorothea Gibson, Don Howie, Brigid Gibbings and others.
1965: Staged by Brickhill-Burke Productions, directed by Joan Brickhill and Louis Burke, with Annabel Linder (Lucy), Marjorie Gordon (Leonora Fiske), Edna Jacobson (Ellen Creed), James White (Albert Feather), Patricia Sanders (Louisa Creed), Ann Rudnick (Emily Creed) and Margery Dickie-Clark (Sister Theresa). Decor by Elizabeth Macleish and costumes by Joan Brickhill.
1965: Presented by University Theatre Stellenbosch.
1973: Moord in Mooihawe was produced by the University of the Freestate Department of Drama under the direction of Ben de Koker.
Sources
Trek, 22 May 1942, 18.
South African Opinion, 2(4):23, 1945; 4(2):20, 1947.
Brooke 1978. 157-8, 162-164.
Brickhill-Burke theatre programme (undated).
Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.
UTS theatre pamphlet
Performing Arts, HSRC, 1972.
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