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''[[El gran Galeoto]]'' is a melodrama by Spanish playwright José Echegaray (1832-1916) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Echegaray].

== The original text ==
''[[El gran Galeoto]]'' ia a drama written in the grand nineteenth century manner of melodrama. It is about the poisonous effect that unfounded gossip has on a middle-aged man's happiness. Echegaray filled it with elaborate stage instructions that illuminate what we would now consider a hammy style of acting popular in the 19th century. (Wikipedia)

==Translations and adaptations==

Filmed in 1920 by Paramount Pictures as a silent movie under the title ''The World and His Wife'' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011882/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2].

Translated into English as ''[[The Great Galeoto]]''.

Translated into [[Afrikaans]] by [[Francois Swart]] as ''[[Theodora]]''.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1974: The [[Francois Swart]] [[Afrikaans]] translation ''[[Theodora]]'' was staged by [[PACT]], directed by [[Francois Swart|Swart]], with [[Sandra Prinsloo]] (Theodora), [[David van der Merwe]] (Don Julian), [[Betty Botha]] (Dona Mercedes), [[Marko van der Colff]] (Don Severo), [[Cobus Visser]] (Pepito), [[Tobie Cronje]] (Ernest), [[Jan Engelen]] (Heer), [[George Ballot]] (Heer), [[Zack du Plessis]] (Heer) and [[Andre Laubscher]] (Heer). Decor by [[Richard Cook]] and costumes by [[Christa Scholtz]].

== Sources ==

[[PACT]] theatre programme, 1974.

[[Petru Wessels|Petru]] & [[Carel Trichardt]] theatre programme collection, [[ESAT Archive]].

[[George Ballot]] scrapbook, [[ESAT Archive]]

Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: The [[Francois Swart]] [[Afrikaans]] translation was staged as ''[[Theodora]]'' by [[PACT]], directed by [[Francois Swart|Swart]], with [[Sandra Prinsloo]] (Theodora), [[David van der Merwe]] (Don Julian), [[Betty Botha]] (Dona Mercedes), [[Marko van der Colff]] (Don Severo), [[Cobus Visser]] (Pepito), [[Tobie Cronje]] (Ernest), [[Jan Engelen]] (Heer), [[George Ballot]] (Heer), [[Zack du Plessis]] (Heer) and [[Andre Laubscher]] (Heer). Decor by [[Richard Cook]] and costumes by [[Christa Scholtz]].
+: The [[Francois Swart]] [[Afrikaans]] translation was staged as ''[[Theodora]]'' by [[PACT]], directed by [[Francois Swart|Swart]], with [[Sandra Prinsloo]] (Theodora), [[David van der Merwe]] (Don Julian), [[Betty Botha]] (Dona Mercedes), [[Marko van der Colff]] (Don Severo), [[Cobus Visser]] (Pepito), [[Tobie Cronje]] (Ernest), [[Jan Engelen]] (Heer), [[George Ballot]] (Heer), [[Zack du Plessis]] (Heer) and [[André Laubscher]] (Heer). Decor by [[Richard Cook]] and costumes by [[Christa Scholtz]].
 == Sources ==

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 Filmed in 1920 by Paramount Pictures as a silent movie under the title ''The World and His Wife'' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011882/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2].
-Translated into English as ''[[The Great Galeoto]]'' by Hannah Lynch in 1916.
+Translated into English as ''[[The Great Galeoto]]'' by Hannah Lynch in 1914 and published by Doubleday in 1916.
 Translated into [[Afrikaans]] by [[Francois Swart]] as ''[[Theodora]]'' in 1974.

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 Translated into English as ''[[The Great Galeoto]]'' by Hannah Lynch in 1916.
-Translated into [[Afrikaans]] by [[Francois Swart]] as ''[[Theodora]]'' in 197.
+Translated into [[Afrikaans]] by [[Francois Swart]] as ''[[Theodora]]'' in 1974.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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 [[Petru Wessels|Petru]] & [[Carel Trichardt]] theatre programme collection, [[ESAT Archive]].
-[[George Ballot]] scrapbook, [[ESAT Archive]]
+[[George Ballot]] scrapbooks. (Provisionally held in the [[ESAT Archive]], with the kind permission of Prof Muller Ballot[http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/ballotm.html] and consulted 2024).
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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-''[[El gran Galeoto]]'' is a melodrama by Spanish playwright José Echegaray (1832-1916) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Echegaray].
+''[[El gran Galeoto]]'' is a Spanish melodrama by playwright José Echegaray (1832-1916) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Echegaray].
 == The original text ==
 ''[[El gran Galeoto]]'' ia a drama written in the grand nineteenth century manner of melodrama. It is about the poisonous effect that unfounded gossip has on a middle-aged man's happiness. Echegaray filled it with elaborate stage instructions that illuminate what we would now consider a hammy style of acting popular in the 19th century. (Wikipedia)