Man Friday - Revision history

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Performance history in South Africa

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Adaptations and translations

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The original text

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 ==Performance history in South Africa==
-: Presented as ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' by [[Durban Theatre workshop Company]] at the [[City Centre Theatre]], adapted and directed by [[Roger Holt]].
+: Presented as ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' by [[Durban Theatre Workshop Company]] at the [[City Centre Theatre]], adapted and directed by [[Roger Holt]].
 : The stage version performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]].

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		+	1977: Presented as ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' by [[Durban Theatre workshop Company]] at the [[City Centre Theatre]], adapted and directed by [[Roger Holt]].

	1994: The stage version performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]].		1994: The stage version performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]].

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 ==Performance history in South Africa==
-: The stage version performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]]. ''(In his 2021 doctoral thesis [[Andile Xaba]] for some reason ascribes the creation of the text and the direction of the play at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1994 to the actor - and cast member - [[Alistair Dube]].)''
+: The stage version performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]].
 == Sources ==

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 ==Performance history in South Africa==
-: The stage version performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]].
+: The stage version performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]]. ''(In his 2021 doctoral thesis [[Andile Xaba]] for some reason ascribes the creation of the text and the direction of the play at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1994 to the actor - and cast member - [[Alistair Dube]].)''
 == Sources ==

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 ==Performance history in South Africa==
-: Performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]]. ''(In a 2021 doctoral thesis by [[Andile Xaba]], the actor - and cast member - [[Alistair Dube]] is wrongly named as the author and director of ''[[Man Friday]]'' at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1994.)''
+: The stage version performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]].
 == Sources ==

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 ==Adaptations and translations==
-Filmed as ''[[Man Friday]]'' in 1975 as an adventure film, directed by Jack Gold and starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree.
+Filmed as ''[[Man Friday]]'' in 1975 as an adventure film, directed by Jack Gold and starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Friday_(film)]
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 == The original text ==
-The play was written in 1973 play by Adrian Mitchell and based on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. In it the roles of the two men are reversed hoever,  Crusoe as a being a blunt, stiff Englishman, while the native he calls [[Man Friday]] is portrayed as being much more intelligent and empathic.
+Based on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'', the play was originally written as a TV play, aired in 1972 by the BBC. In it the roles of the two men are reversed however,  Crusoe portrayed as a blunt, stiff Englishman, while the native he calls [[Man Friday]] is much more intelligent and empathic.
-Originally written as a TV play, aired in 1972 by the BBC and adapted for the stage by
+Mitchell then adapted it for the stage and it premiered at the Bush Theatre in London in 1973. The text published by  Eyre Methuen, 1974 and by Popular Library, 1975.
 ==Adaptations and translations==

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 ==Performance history in South Africa==
-: Performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]]. (In a 2021 doctoral thesis the Xaba wrongly claims that the actor - and cast member - [[Alistair Dube]] had written and directed ''[[Man Friday]]'' at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1994.)
+: Performed at the [[Market Theatre]] in October, directed by [[Gerrit Schoonhoven]] with [[Alistair Dube]], [[David Butler]], [[Zenzi Mbuli]], [[Ignatius Qulu]], [[Lucky Ngojo]]. ''(In a 2021 doctoral thesis the Xaba wrongly claims that the actor - and cast member - [[Alistair Dube]] had written and directed ''[[Man Friday]]'' at the [[Market Theatre]] in 1994.)''
 == Sources ==