Leonardo was Right

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Leonardo was Right (original title in French Vinci avait raison, 1976), is a play by French illustrator, writer, actor Roland Topor [1]] (1938-1997),

The original text

The play is said to be a social satire that interrogates the relationship to the other and to the body, its secretions, its materiality. A pastiche of J. B. Priestley's 1945 play An Inspector Calls, it is set in a house where no one can escape, the toilets are clogged, and excrement becomes evident on stage.

When it was performed in Brussels in 1977 it caused a scandal and was threatened with closure.

Originally published in French by C. Bourgois in 1976

Adaptations and translations

Translated into English as Leonardo was Right by Barbara Wright.

The English translation was published by John Calder, 1978.

Performance history in South Africa

1979: Staged in The Gym at The Space (Cape Town) as part of a three-hander called Three Thoroughly Offensive Plays for Mother Grundies. The production was initially banned, later allowed.

(See also the entry for Three Thoroughly Offensive Plays for Mother Grundies.)

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Topor

Astbury 1979.

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