Treasure Island

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Treasure Island [1] (published in 1883) is a popular adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson [2]. Besides many film versions, there have been over 24 major stage and radio adaptations, while the number of minor adaptations remains countless.


The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1953: Produced by The Children's Theatre, directed by Colin Romoff at the Wits Great Hall, starring Felix Cooper)

1964: Staged by The Children's Theatre at the Zoo Lake as part of the Johannesburg Festival, directed by Robert Langford with James White (Jim Hawkins), Kevin Basel (Black Dog), Michael Fisher (Capt. Billy Bones), Francesco (Blind Pew),

Sources

The Children's Theatre programme, 1964.

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