The Flies
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The Flies is a play by French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) [1], written in 1943. It is an adaptation of the Electra myth.
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Original text
The title in the original French is Les Mouches.
Translations and adaptations
Yaël Farber's Molora uses themes from Sartre's The Flies and Sophocles's Electra to explore a nation's conscience in the aftermath of a bloodbath.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
Wikipedia [2].
Cape Argus, 24 April 2003.
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