Alter Ego
Alter Ego is a radio play by Arch Oboler (1909-1987)[1].
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The original text
A radio play about a young woman compelled by an inner voice to kill her lover, it was apparently written for Bette Davis and was first produced by the Texaco Star Theater (5 October 1938), with Davis in the role of a young woman.
Retitled Another World the psychodrama was subsequently presented on the programme Arch Oboler’s Plays (28 July 1939), with radio actress Betty Garde in the lead. On 22 April, 1945, it was once again soundstaged under its original title of Alter Ego as a Your Radio Hall of Fame production.
Translations and adaptations
Oboler adapted the piece as a film called Bewitched in 1945.
Translated into Afrikaans as Alter Ego by Conradie and most probably broadcast by the SABC Afrikaans service. A full set of Afrikaans radio scripts of Alter Ego was found in the radio archives of the Stellenbosch Drama Departement.
Broadcast history in South Africa
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Oboler
https://broadcastellan.blogspot.com/2008/04/originally-written-for-bette-davis-arch.html
https://parallax-view.org/2013/02/18/arch-obolers-bewitched-and-its-alter-egos/
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