- Title
- Ariel in Africa: Leslie French and the Port Elizabeth Shakespearean Festival
- Creator
- Mann, Bruce, Wright, Laurence
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455588
- Identifier
- vital:75441
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_168
- Description
- The Port Elizabeth Shakespearean Festival has good reason to remember the 23'd April. Quite apart from its being the official birthday of Shakespeare and St. George (after whom the park was named in which Mannville, the company's open air theatre, stands today), the 23'd April 1904 was the birthday of Leslie French, doyen of classical theatre in South Africa in the last century, whose productions established and consolidated open-air theatre in Port Elizabeth. He had a varied and successful career in the performing arts well before his association with South African theatre began. A gifted boy singer, his first appearance was in London at the Little Theatre, December 141", 1914, while he was still a chorister at the London College of Choristers. In the next four years he appeared regularly with Jean Sterling Machinlay and Harcourt Williams at the Margaret Morris Theatre, as a soloist at many important London churches (including St. Margaret's, Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral), as well as singing at the Royal Albert Hall and the Queen's Hall in the Chapel Ballad Concerts.
- Format
- 6 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Shakespeare in Southern Africa, Mann, B and Wright, L., 2001. Ariel in Africa: Leslie French and the Port Elizabeth Shakespearean Festival. Shakespeare in Southern Africa, 13(1), pp.93-99, Shakespeare in Southern Africa volume 13 number 1 93 99 2001 2071-7504
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Shakespeare in Southern Africa Statement (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sisa/about)
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