The Happy Prince

The Happy Prince is a short story by Oscar Wilde.

Translations and adaptations

An adaptation by Pieter-Dirk Uys (1973).

A musical adaptation by Ron Kaftel and Johnny Boshoff (1975).

Performance history in South Africa

1973: Pieter-Dirk Uys adapted it and Jacqui Singer directed it for The Space (Cape Town) with Bill Flynn, Christopher Prophet, Jacqui Singer and Maralin Vanrenen.

1975: The Kaftel/Boshoff version presented at the Library Theatre, directed by John Hussey.

Sources

Astbury 1979.

Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.

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