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

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, Hofmeyr Hall, in March, 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.

Sources

Trek, 22 May 1942, 18.

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

Brickhill-Burke theatre programme (undated).

UTS theatre pamphlet

Performing Arts, HSRC, 1972.

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