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=== South African adaptations and translations === | === South African adaptations and translations === | ||
| − | Translated into [[Afrikaans]] and adapted for the stage as ''[[Ebenezer Pennieknyper]]'' ("Ebenezer Penny Pincher") by [[Aart de Villiers]] and [[Don Lamprecht]] in 1982. | + | Translated into [[Afrikaans]] and adapted for the stage as '''''[[Ebenezer Pennieknyper]]''''' ("Ebenezer Penny Pincher") by [[Aart de Villiers]] and [[Don Lamprecht]] in 1982. |
| − | Adapted for the stage, the text in English with some [[Afrikaans]], by [[Lara Foot]] and renamed as ''[[Scrooge]]''. The action now set in the present day and journeying back to the early 1900s, | + | Adapted for the stage, the text in English with some [[Afrikaans]], by [[Lara Foot]] and renamed as ''[[Scrooge]]''. The action now set in the present day and journeying back to the early 1900s, |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 07:15, 29 December 2016
A Christmas Carol is a brilliant and enormously popular novella by Charles Dickens (1812–1870)[1].
Contents
The original text
The novel was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843.
Adaptations for the stage and other media
The work was adapted for the stage almost immediately. Three productions opened on 5 February 1844, and by the close of February 1844, eight rival theatrical productions of the work were playing in London.
International versions
The novel and the play have been a standard piece since then and has been adapted for stage, film, radio and TV production in numerous ways. These include versions adapted for opera, ballet, a Broadway musical, a BBC mime production (starring Marcel Marceau), and Benjamin Britten's 1947 chamber orchestra composition Men of Goodwill: Variations on 'A Christmas Carol.
It has been produced under a range of titles over the years, often using Scrooge as the title or part of a title (e.g. Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost, a 1901 silent film; Scrooge (1913 film); Scrooge (1935 film); Scrooge (1951 film); Scrooge (1970 musical film), and Scrooge (1992 stage musical), etc.)
South African adaptations and translations
Translated into Afrikaans and adapted for the stage as Ebenezer Pennieknyper ("Ebenezer Penny Pincher") by Aart de Villiers and Don Lamprecht in 1982.
Adapted for the stage, the text in English with some Afrikaans, by Lara Foot and renamed as Scrooge. The action now set in the present day and journeying back to the early 1900s,
Performance history in South Africa
1982: Presented in November in Afrikaans as Ebenezer Pennieknyper in the Etienne Rousseau Theatre in Sasolburg , directed for the ATKV by Aart de Villiers, with Dawie Malan, Johan Blignaut, Christo Gerlach, Ryno Hattingh, Didi Kriel, Don Lamprecht and Paul Lückhoff.
2012: Performed in Afrikaans as Ebenezer Pennieknyper in the Little Libertas Theatre, Stellenbosch, directed by Juanita Swanepoel, with Waldemar Schultz, ***
2013: The Baxter Theatre, : Scrooge, Lara Foot’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol , set in the present day and journeying to the early 1900s, and performed in English with some Afrikaans. Directed by Lara Foot, with Marc Lottering, Andrew Buckland, Shaleen Surtie-Richards and Christo Davids, Nur Abrahams and Poseletso Sejosingoe; plus a 50 strong youth choir. Set design is by Patrick Curtis, lighting by Mannie Manim, costumes by Marcel Meyer and magic is created by Chad Findlay. The choir is made up of learners from Kenmere Primary School Choir, Kensington Chorale Girls' Choir, Herzlia Constantia and Injongo Public Primary School Choir.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge
Etienne Rousseau Theatre pamphlet.
Ilse Salzwedel. 2016. "Akteur in Hart en Siel", Rooi Rose: September: pp.28-30.
WCtheatre - Marc Lottering is Scrooge at the Baxter - 04/12/2013 - Artslink.co.za News
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