La Sauvage
La Sauvage ("the savage") is a play by Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)[1]
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The original text
The piece was written in 1934 and first performed at the Théâtre des Mathurins in Paris on 11 January, 1938, directed by Georges Pitoëff, with music by Darius Milhaud.
The play forms part of his "pièces noires" and was published by Éditions Balzac in 1942.
The play tells of Thérèse, a young musician from a modest family, who renounces renonce à la vie confortable que lui offre son riche prétendant.
Translations and adaptations
Translated by Hill as Restless Heart (London: Methuen, 1957).
Translated by Kitty Black (1914–2006) as The Untamed and adapted for radio by Raymond Raikes (1910-1998)[2].
The Black/Raikes radio version was translated into Afrikaans as Die Ontembare by Anna C. Louw and broadcast by the SABC on 15 March, 1957, directed by Suzanne van Wyk.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anouilh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Black
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Raikes
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Sauvage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anouilh#Published_plays
Typed copy of the Afrikaans radio text, found in the radio archives of the Stellenbosch Drama Department.
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