The Great Galeoto

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The Great Galeoto (Spanish: El gran Galeoto) is a melodrama by Spanish playwright José Echegaray (1832-1916) [1].

The original text

El gran Galeoto ia a drama written in the grand nineteenth century manner of melodrama. It is about the poisonous effect that unfounded gossip has on a middle-aged man's happiness. Echegaray filled it with elaborate stage instructions that illuminate what we would now consider a hammy style of acting popular in the 19th century. (Wikipedia)

Translations and adaptations

Filmed by Paramount Pictures as a silent movie under the title The World and His Wife.

Translated into Afrikaans by Francois Swart as Theodora.

Performance history in South Africa

1974: The Francois Swart Afrikaans translation Theodora was staged by PACT, directed by Swart, with Sandra Prinsloo (Theodora),


Sources

PACT theatre programme, 1974.

Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.

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