The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden

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by Thornton Wilder [1]. One-act. Cast: mixed.

The first production of The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden was by the Yale Dramatic Association and the Vassar College Philalethis at the Yale University theater in New Haven, Connecticut on November 25, 1931.


The original text

It was first published in The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act (New York: Coward-McCann, 1931).

Published in Spotlight by De-Jager Haum.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Presented as The Happy Journey to Camden by the University of Cape Town Speech and Drama Department and produced by Nancy Body. Little Theatre, Sept 1946. Featuring Leonard Schach, Sonia Lipman and Winifred Robertson.

Presented by CAPAB's Theatre-go-round directed by Elliot Playfair in 1967 in a double bill with The Garden at the Threshold.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Happy_Journey_to_Trenton_and_Camden

South African Opinion, 3(9):30, 1946.

Trek, 11(7):23, 1946.

AfricaWide database.


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