The Sport of My Mad Mother
A play by Ann Jellicoe. A play about the rootless youth in the jungle of the modern city, which marked an important step in the movement initiated by Beckett with Waiting for Godot. Set in a cockney neighborhood of London, it combines realism, mysticism, music, dance, and ritual to create a powerful, feminist myth about modern civilization.
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A prize-winner in the 1956 playwright’s competition by The Observer, it was first staged by the Royal Court Theatre in 1958 and directed by George Devine and Jellicoe. Although originally a commercial failure, the play was later performed all over the world in many different languages. Jellicoe revised the original 1958 version in 1962 to create a better play.
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Performance history in South Africa
Directed by Robert Mohr during the 1961 Student’s Art Festival entitled “Imagination ‘61” and was performed in the "temporary room” on the UCT campus. The production was later invited to Loughborough Student’s Winter Festival in England, in 1962. [*??]
The first professional production in South Africa was by ***
Performed in South Africa at the Space Theatre in the 1970s directed by David Lan, with **, Stefan Bubenzer, **. (See Inskip 197*, Astbury, 1979) ?
Directed by Sarah Roberts for the Standard Bank National Arts Festival student drama competition in July 1989.
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