Ladies in Retirement

Ladies in Retirement, a 1940 Broadway play by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham. The play starred Flora Robson in the lead role. Full-length. Cast: mixed.

Translations and adaptations

Afrikaans translation by Ben de Koker: Moord in Mooihawe.

Performance history in South Africa

Produced by Mary Holder for the Combined Dramatic Societies of Cape Town in the Little Theatre in 1942, with Margot Lassner as Ellen Creed, Violet Dunlop Emily Creed, Estelle de Villiers, Minna Millsten as Leonora Fiske, Basil Warner as Albert, Pera Miller, Nell Angles

Produced by Margaret Inglis for the Munro-Inglis Company, 1945, starring Taubie Kushlick as Leonora Fiske.

Ladies in Retirement by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham. Presented by the Brian Brooke Company, produced by Will Jamieson, Hofmeyr Hall, March 1947, with Petrina Fry, Dorothea Gibson, Don Howie, Brigid Gibbings.

Presented by University Theatre Stellenbosch in 1965.

Sources

Trek, 22 May 1942, 18.

South African Opinion, 2(4):23, 1945; 4(2):20, 1947.

UTS theatre pamphlet

Performing Arts, HSRC, 1972.

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