La Sauvage

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La Sauvage ("the savage") is a play by Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)[1]

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 and now held in the ESAT repository at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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