The Hungerers
The Hungerers is a short play by William Saroyan (1908 – 1981)[1].
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The original text
"The Hungerers is an American fable. The hunger of these hungerers is not a hunger for bread alone, although that hunger is beautiful enough. It is a hunger for immortality. The simple immortality which comes about when human beings rid themselves of all world imposed absurdities and know the foolishness of pride." (Author's note in the Samuel French publication of 1939).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1966: First staged in South Africa in 1966 by the Libertas Theatre Club in Stellenbosch, directed by Marie van Heerden, with John Burn Wood (The Writer), Johan Greeff (The Young Capitalist), Elodie Daneel (The Girl), Brenda von Memerty (The Old Woman) and Casper Venter (Death).
Sources
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Saroyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Saroyan
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/2069/the-hungerers
A typed copy of the 1939 Samuel French text, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department's theatre archives 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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