Tramway Rd
“Tramway Road,” by Ronald Harwood who wrote “The Dresser,” opens next Wednesday evening at the Court Two theatre. The play focuses on Arthur and Dora Langley who live just off Tramway Road in Cape Town, South Africa. They are an ordinary ex-patriot English couple. He teaches elocution and runs a lending library. She drinks and sings Gilbert and Sullivan. Why, if they love England so much, do they not go home? Why don’t they stand up to the new pass laws of their adopted country? The play asks these questions. Judie Douglass plays Dora, Bill de Marquand
plays Arthur. Judd Millner is Emil, his prize pupil, the character whose predicament under the South African racial policy triggers the action. Newcomer to the Court, Lloyd Edwards plays their banjo playing servant. This is the New Zealand premiere of a play which opened in London late last year and received wide acclaim and the “Sunday Times” citation as the best new play of 1984. Elizabeth Moody directs the play and Muree Hutchinson, returned from Australia, has designed the set. The play will run from July 10 to 27.
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Press, 3 July 1985, Page 18
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