The Chalk Garden
The Chalk Garden is a playby Enid Bagnold (1889-1981)[1].
Contents
The original text
First produced in London in 1955.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1959: Directed by Leonard Schach for the Cockpit Players at the Hofmeyr Theatre, February 1959, with Eveline Garrett, Heather Lloyd-Jones, Eric Messiter and Daphne Riggs. Decor by Bruce Palmer.
1959: Produced by the Brian Brooke Company at the Brooke Theatre, Johannesburg, also in 1959.
1968: Performed by the CAPAB English company, directed by Simon Swindell for CAPAB, , with Yvonne Bryceland (Miss Madrigal), Norman Coombes (Maitland), Cheryl Heath (Laurel), Joyce Bradley (Mrs St Maugham), Shirley Rautenbach (The Applicant), Lorna Robertson (The Nurse), Val Donald (Olivia), Elliot Playfair (The Judge). Set designed by Keith Anderson, stage manager Brian Kennedy. The production toured widely in the Cape Province from 30 April, inter alia playing in the Guild Theatre, East London (21-25 May); the Rhodes University Theatre, Grahamstown (27 June); the Jubilee Hall, Uitenhage (28 May); the Civic Theatre, Oudtshoorn (30 May); the Civic Theatre, George (31 May); St George's Church Hall, Knysna (1 June); Town Hall, Paarl, (6 June) and Schjool Hall, Hopefield (7 June). The tour ended with a run in the Hofmeyr Theatre, opening on 15 June.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Bagnold
Teater SA, 1(1), 1968.
The Chalk Garden theatre programme, 1968.
Inskip, 1977. 122.
Tucker, 1997. 122.
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