Karol - Revision history

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Performance history in South Africa

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 ==The original text==
-Written in 1961.
+A one-act absurdist comedy that deals with three characters (an oculist of rather flexible moral convictions, an old man with a loaded gun and bad vision and his solicitous, direct grandson), and one problem.
 == Translations and adaptations ==

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	Theatre programme, 1981.		Theatre programme, 1981.
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		+	Copy of the text found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) 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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 Made into a Polish TV film in 1993, and premiered on 18 January,
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 Theatre programme, 1981.
 == Return to ==
-Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
+Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
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	''[[Karol]]'' is a dramatic work by Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek]		''[[Karol]]'' is a dramatic work by Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek]
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−	~~Also known as '''''[[Karol/Charlie]]'''''.~~

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-''[[Karol]]'' (or '''''[[Karol/Charlie]]''''') (1961) a dramatic work by Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek]
+''[[Karol]]'' is a dramatic work by Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek]
 == Translations and adaptations ==
-Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Karel]]'' by [[Marie van Heerden]].
+Translated into English as ''[[Charlie]]'' by Nicholas Bethell and published in ''Six Plays'' by Grove Press, Inc., New York in 1967.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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−	''[[Karol]]'' (or ''[[Karol/Charlie]]'') (1961) a dramatic work by Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek]	+	''[[Karol]]'' (or '''''[[Karol/Charlie]]''''') (1961) a dramatic work by Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek]

	== Translations and adaptations ==		== Translations and adaptations ==

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−	''[[Karol]]'' (or ''[[Karol/Charlie]]'') (1961) a dramatic work by Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist ~~[[Slawomir Mrozek\|~~Sławomir Mrożek]] (~~1930 –2013~~).	+	''[[Karol]]'' (or ''[[Karol/Charlie]]'') (1961) a dramatic work by Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek]

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: The play was to have been performed in [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Karel]]'' as part of a triple-bill  with ''[[Wolf, Wolf hoe laat is dit?]]'' and ''[[Die Panne|Teenspoed]]'' by [[Libertas Theatre Club]] under the direction of [[Marie van Heerden]], opening 29 October 1971. However, in the absence of any theatre programme or newspaper reports (especially as one would expect in the local Stellenbosch weekly paper ''[[Eikestad Nuus]]''), it is assumed that the production never materialised.
+: The play was to have been performed in [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Karel]]'' as part of a triple-bill  with ''[[Wolf, Wolf hoe laat is dit?]]'' and ''[[Die Panne|Teenspoed]]'' by [[Libertas Theatre Club]] under the direction of [[Marie van Heerden]], opening 29 October 1971. However, in the absence of any theatre programme or newspaper reports (especially as one would expect in the local Stellenbosch weekly paper ''[[Eikestadnuus]]''), it is assumed that the production never materialised.
 : Performed in [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Karel]]'' in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre|Keller Theatre]] in May 1981 for examination purposes,  directed by [[Lochner de Kock]].