You Can't Take it With You

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You Can't Take it With You (1936), a farce containing social satire by American playwrights George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart.

Performance history in South Africa

Presented by the Johannesburg Playmakers, 1939, starring Juel Rodack, Minnie Jedwick, Mike Abel, Henry Gilbert, Esther Lutrin and others.

Produced by Costa Couvara for the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society in the Little Theatre in 1943. The cast: Alec Bell, Madeline Legge, Phil Gilbert, Gordon Bridger, Marie Adams, Isaac Pfaff, Pat Faraday, Phyllis Weinrich, Jim Retief, Joan Blake, Leonard Cohen.

Directed by Mavis Taylor for the University of Cape Town Drama Department at the Little Theatre 10-24 April 1976. Cast included Robin Smith, Shirley Johnston, Alan Dickinson, Clifford Lilley and Joan Chamberlain.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

The South African Theatre, Music and Dance, 1(2), 1939-1940.

Trek 7(19):16 1943; 7(21):16, 1943.

World Drama by Allardyce Nicoll. Harrap, 1949.


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