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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
[[Toerien-Firth Company]] presented ''Wait Until Dark'' directed by [[Anthony Sharp]] starring [[Shirley Anne Field]] at the [[Intimate Theatre]], Johannesburg, in 1972.
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[[Toerien-Firth Company]] presented ''Wait Until Dark'' directed by [[Anthony Sharp]] starring [[Shirley Anne Field]] at the [[Intimate Theatre]], Johannesburg, in 1972. Other cast members were [[James Andrews]], [[Kevin Basel]], [[Anthony Fridjhon]], [[Erica Griffiths]], [[Kenneth Hendel]], [[Kathy Kahn]], [[Harry Lehradt]], [[Joy Measures]], [[Albert Raphael]], [[Robin Williams]], [[Jimmy Waugh]].
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 17:13, 14 August 2015

Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott.

The original text

After seven previews, the Broadway production, directed by Arthur Penn, opened on February 2, 1966, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

The London West End production starred Honor Blackman and Peter Sallis.

Translations and adaptations

The film, directed by Terence Young with a screenplay by Robert Carrington and Jane Howard-Carrington and a score by Henry Mancini, premiered on October 26, 1967. It starred Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Jack Weston, and was produced by Hepburn's then-husband Mel Ferrer.

Performance history in South Africa

Toerien-Firth Company presented Wait Until Dark directed by Anthony Sharp starring Shirley Anne Field at the Intimate Theatre, Johannesburg, in 1972. Other cast members were James Andrews, Kevin Basel, Anthony Fridjhon, Erica Griffiths, Kenneth Hendel, Kathy Kahn, Harry Lehradt, Joy Measures, Albert Raphael, Robin Williams, Jimmy Waugh.

Sources

Wikipedia [1].


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