Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Goldilocks and the Three Bears is an English fairytale
Sometimes simply referred to as Goldilocks
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The original tale
The basic tale is a 19th-century English fairy tale of which three versions exist. The original version of the tale has an impudent old woman as the visitor who enters home of the three male bears, the second version replaces the old woman with a girl named Goldilocks, and the third and best-known version has a a family of three: a father bear, a mother bear, and a baby bear. The story has had numerous interpretations, being adapted to film, opera, and other media.
South African Dramatised versions
The Three Bears by Jocelyn de Bruyn
A copy of this text was found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department's theatre archives and now held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Goldilocks by Glynn Day
The original text
A children's play based on the fairytale
Performance history
1986: Written and directed by Glynn Day for the Baxter Theatre. With Joey Wishnia, Julie Hartley, James McCullagh, Adrian Heneke, Benita Cloete, Lisa Greenstein, Andre Thomas, Jonathan Crossland, Marike Boer, Nina Gobat, Pippa Duffy, John Dennison, Michael de Witt.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_and_the_Three_Bears
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987).
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