The Amorous Prawn

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The Amorous Prawn is a play by Anthony Kimmins [1] (1901-1964).

The original text

A British light comedy about the wife of an Army general, who - having fallen upon hard times - hits upon a scheme to raise some quick cash. She opens her husband's highland headquarters to visiting salmon fishermen, a circumstance that displeases the general when several of those anglers turn out to be handsome young men.

Written and first produced at New Theatre, Oxford (12th – 17th October 1959). The text published by Samuel French.

Translations and adaptations

Made into a film called The Amorous Prawn[2], directed by author Kimmel in 1962 (known as The Amorous Mr. Prawn, and retitled The Playgirl and the War Minister in America).

Performance history in South Africa

1961: There was a South African run at the Alexander Theatre in September . The cast included Joe Stewardson, Patricia Gill, Diane Wilson, Joan Blake, Simon Swindell, Jimmy Asser, Pip Flood-Murphy, Gabriel Bayman, Ronald Wallace, Webster Booth and Norman Kelly-Herde. The run was produced (and directed?) by Victor Melleney.


Sources

The Alexander Theatre programme of The Amorous Prawn, ESAT Archives (September, 1961, No. 154).

The Amorous Prawn theatre programme and photographs held by NELM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amorous_Prawn

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055746/

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