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The following plays have been staged in the country:
 
The following plays have been staged in the country:
  
''[[Five Finger Exercise]]'', ''[[The Private Ear]]'', ''[[The Public Eye]]'', ''[[Black Comedy]]'',  ''[[The White Liars]]''  
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''[[Five Finger Exercise]]'', ''[[The Private Ear]]'', ''[[The Public Eye]]'', ''[[Black Comedy]]'',  ''[[The White Liars]]'', ''[[Lettice and Lovage]]'', ''[[Shrivings]]'', ''[[Equus]]'', ''[[[[The Royal Hunt of the Sun]],]]'', ''[[Amadeus]]''
 
 
 
 
 
 
[[John Hussey]] directed his double bill with [[Ruth Oppenheim]] and [[Eckard Rabe]] for [[PACT]] at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1972. [[Pieter Toerien]] staged his [[Equus]] which was directed by [[Leonard Schach]] starring British actors [[John Fraser]] and [[Dai Bradley]] together with [[Anne Courtneidge]], [[Kim Braden]], [[Fiona Fraser]] and [[Michael Howard]] at the [[Civic Theatre]] in 1975. His [[The Royal Hunt of the Sun]], directed by [[Leonard Schach]] and starring [[Keith Grenville]], [[Marius Weyers]], [[Michael McCabe]], [[David Horner]], [[Patrick Mynhardt]] and [[Bill Flynn]] was staged during the opening season of the [[Pretoria State Theatre]] in 1981. [[Pieter Toerien]] staged his ''[[Amadeus]]'' starring [[Richard Haines]] and [[Ralph Lawson]] and directed by [[Nikolas Simmonds]] at the [[Alhambra Theatre]] in 1981. [[Michael Atkinson]] replaced [[Richard Haines]] in a subsequent extended season. [[Roy Sargeant]] directed his ''[[Shrivings]]'' with [[Joe Stewardson]] and [[John Hussey]] for [[PACT]] in 1982. [[Pieter Toerien]] presented his ''[[Lettice and Lovage]]'' in 1988.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 11:11, 13 June 2016

Peter Shaffer(1926-2016)[1] is a British playwright and director.

For biographical details, see Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shaffer.


His South African connection

All his works, have been performed in South Africa, and he has also visited the country on occasion.


As director

In 1964 he came to South Africa to direct a revival of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, and the first presentation of his own double-bill of short plays (The Private Ear and The Public Eye) for Taubie Kushlick at the Intimate Theatre in 1964.

His plays performed in South Africa

The following plays have been staged in the country:

Five Finger Exercise, The Private Ear, The Public Eye, Black Comedy, The White Liars, Lettice and Lovage, Shrivings, Equus, [[The Royal Hunt of the Sun,]], Amadeus

Sources

Tucker, 1997

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