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Johann van Heerden: Created page with "A play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play has two acts and follows the convention..."

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Created page with "A play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play has two acts and follows the convention..."

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A play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist [[Jean Giraudoux]], written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play has two acts and follows the convention of the classical unities. The story concerns an eccentric woman who lives in Paris and her struggles against the straitlaced authority figures in her life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Folle_de_Chaillot

Translated into English as ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]''.
Translated into Afrikaans as ''[[Die Mal vrou van Chaillot]]''.

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Madwoman_of_Chaillot.
-Undated clipping from ''[[Die Burger]]'' found in a scrapbook dated 1951, prepared by Sophie Snyman, student in Speech and Drama at the [[University of Stellenbosch]].
+Undated clipping from ''[[Die Burger]]'' found in a scrapbook dated 1951, prepared by [[Sophie Snyman]], student in Speech and Drama at the [[University of Stellenbosch]].
 Photographs of Percy Sieff and the cast of the production of ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'' by Jean Giradeaux, produced by Leonard Schach at the Little Theatre, Cape Town, on 20 October 1951, including [[Helen Houghton]], [[Dudley Davies]], [[Haidee Cassel]], [[Paul Vierya]], [[Brian Proudfoot]], [[Donald Inskip]], [[Hudson Clausen]], [[Diana Lazar]], [[John Kerr]], [[Petal du Toit]], [[Frances Barry]], [[Beronese Mann]], [[Zandberg Jansen]] and [[Melvin Simmers]]. [[NELM]]: Photograph collection [Collection: SIEFF, Percy]: 2013. 25. 2. 38.

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Translated into English as '''''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]''''' by Maurice Valency.
+Translated into English as '''''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]''''' by Maurice Valency. First performed at the Belasco and Bernard B. Jacobs theatres on Broadway in 1948. It ran from December 1948 to January 1950 and featured Martita Hunt (playing the role of the Madwoman for over 350 performances and winning a 1949 Tony Award for her performance), and John Carradine as The Ragpicker
-Translated from the French into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''[[Die Mal Vrou van Chaillot]]''''' by [[Rita Elferink]].
+Translated from the French into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''[[Die Mal Vrou van Chaillot]]''''' by [[Rita Elferink]] in 1977.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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 The play has two acts and follows the convention of the classical unities. The story concerns an eccentric woman who lives in Paris and her struggles against the straitlaced authority figures in her life.
-Written during the German Occupation of Paris in 1943, it was not performed until after his death in 1944. The première was in Paris in December 1945 in a production by Giraudoux's frequent collaborator, actor and theatre director Louis Jouvet with Marguerite Moreno in the lead. It was she who had been the inspiration for the piece.
+Written during the German Occupation of Paris in 1943, it was not performed until after his death in 1944. The première was on 19 December 1945 in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in a production by Giraudoux's frequent collaborator, actor and theatre director Louis Jouvet with Marguerite Moreno in the lead. It was she who had been the inspiration for the piece.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Translated into English as ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]'' by Maurice Valency.
+Translated into English as '''''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]''''' by Maurice Valency.
-Translated from the French into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Die Mal Vrou van Chaillot]]'' by [[Rita Elferink]].
+Translated from the French into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''[[Die Mal Vrou van Chaillot]]''''' by [[Rita Elferink]].
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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-A play, a poetic satire, by French dramatist [[Jean Giraudoux]], written in 1943 and first performed in 1945, after his death. The play has two acts and follows the convention of the classical unities. The story concerns an eccentric woman who lives in Paris and her struggles against the straitlaced authority figures in her life.
+''[[La Folle de Chaillot]]'' ("The madwoman of Chaillot") is a poetic satire by French dramatist [[Jean Giraudoux]],
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Folle_de_Chaillot
-Translated into English as ''[[The Madwoman of Chaillot]]''.
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Madwoman_of_Chaillot.
-Translated into Afrikaans as ''[[Die Mal Vrou van Chaillot]]''.

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−	Translated into Afrikaans as ''[[Die Mal ~~vrou~~ van Chaillot]]''.	+	Translated into Afrikaans as ''[[Die Mal Vrou van Chaillot]]''.