The Hairy Ape
The Hairy Ape (1922) by Eugene O'Neill. An expressionist play about the clash of the social classes and man’s search for belonging.
Performance history in South Africa
Produced at the Bantu Men's Social Centre by the Bantu People’s Theatre in December 1936, directed by André van Gyseghem and featuring Dan Twala as Yank. Repeated in the Great Hall, Wits University in June 1937. Fanagalo, a hybrid language developed between white and black workers of different language groups in the mines, was used to represent American slang.
Sources
South African Opinion, 23 January 1937.
Robert Mshengu Kavanagh. "The Development of Theatre in South Africa up to 1976 - Anti-Apartheid Literature." Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, edited by Thomas J. Schoenberg Lawrence J. Trudeau, Vol. 162. Gale Cengage, 2005.
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