Everyman

A late 15th-century morality play. Like John Bunyan's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress, Everyman uses allegorical characters to examine the question of Christian salvation and what Man must do to attain it.

See also Elckerlijc.

Translations and adaptations
Everyman: a morality play: a modernised version of the Medieval interlude of the same name by Guy Butler [ms.]. – 1950 by Guy Butler.

Crossroads, by Theatre Workshop '71 is an improvised adaptation of Everyman.

Performance history in South Africa
Prof William H. Bell produced his first plays at the Stal Plein Hotel, an activity which would lead to the founding of the Department of Speech and Drama in 19**. The first such a production was Everyman in 19**, directed by Bell. (pre-1931).

Produced for the Rhodes University Players by Guy Butler, in collaboration with the Rhodes University Chamber Choir, directed by Georg Gruber, September 1963. (NELM AN: MANU-36130).

PACT 198* with Pamela Gien, Madeleine Bertine Rose,

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