Das Heilige Experiment

Das Heilige Experiment is a German play by Austrian playwright Fritz Hochwaelder [1] (1911-1986).

The original text

Hochwaelder wrote social and political dramas, using historical themes in his plays. The Strong Are Lonely written in 1942-3, drew on the violent dismantling of a utopian Jesuit settlement by the Spaniards in Paraguay in the 1760s.

Translations and adaptations

The play is known as translated into English by Basil Warner, since

Performance history in South Africa

1957: Presented by the Johannesburg Repertory Players , directed by Cecil Williams, with sets designed by Anthony Farmer and Charles Stodel in the cast, at the Library Theatre, Johannesburg, in June.

Sources

Theatre programme held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 13. 1167.

Press clipping of review by Oliver Walker held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 20. 1. 17.

Tucker, 1997. 107.

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