Les Affaires sont les Affaires

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Les Affaires sont les Affaires (1903), by French playwright Octave Mirbeau.

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Performance history in South Africa

Translations and adaptations

Zaken zijn Zaken ("Business is Business"). A popular Dutch version of Les Affaires sont les Affaires (1903), by Octave Mirbeau, a French satire about the big businessman who is a slave to his wealth. The first play which Paul de Groot produced and performed in South Africa (Cape Town, 1924). In 1928 the Paul de Groot Teatergeselskap produced a successful Afrikaans version of it under the title Besigheid is Besigheid (1928) and he repeated it in 1931 with a new company. (See Binge, 1969)

Besigheid is Besigheid ("Business is Business") A translation of a French play by Octave Mirbeau. Performed by the Paul de Groot Company January - March 1928, directed by De Groot, featuring Lydia Lindeque. A somewhat prophetic choice of play: The tour was a fiasco and De Groot lost everything, including his touring bus and Lydia, his paramour. See Zaken zijn Zaken.

Sources

Nel, 1972 Go to ESAT Bibliography

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