The Abbess - Revision history

Temple: /* The play */

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The play

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Darryl at 13:37, 9 December 2025

2025-12-09T13:37:33Z

Darryl: /* The play */

2023-09-27T08:51:04Z

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Darryl at 08:44, 27 September 2023

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Darryl at 08:44, 27 September 2023

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Ivor at 10:50, 14 February 2018

2018-02-14T10:50:43Z

Miriamt at 12:21, 13 June 2013

2013-06-13T12:21:09Z

Miriamt: Created page with "''The Abbess'' by Athol Fugard. A play about the abbess * who wrote plays in the 14th century??. Written for * and produced by in California in 2000. First published..."

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''The Abbess'' by [[Athol Fugard]]. A play about the abbess *** who wrote plays in the 14th century??**. Written for *** and produced by ** in California in 2000. First published in the [[South African Theatre Journal]] 2005.

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 * Richardis - Also a memory. Young and beautiful. At one time the Abbess’s favourite. She has been dead about thirty years.
-First published in the [[South African Theatre Journal]] 2006.
+First published in the [[South African Theatre Journal]] Vol. 20, No 1, 2006, also available online[https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC110955].
 == Performances ==

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 == Sources ==
-Marianne McDonald. 2006. Preface to ''The Abbess''. ''South African Theatre Journal'', 20:1,334-338.
+Marianne McDonald. 2006. Preface to ''The Abbess''. ''South African Theatre Journal'', 20:1,334-338.[https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC110955]
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 == The play ==
-Based on an episode in the Life of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a play about the nun, composer and author who was known as the 'Sybil of the Rhine'. The play focuses on an incident that occurred several months before her death in which Hildegard had been ordered to disinter and remove the body of a benefactor from the convent cemetery as he had been excommunicated from the church.
+Based on an episode in the Life of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), a play about the nun, composer and author who was known as the 'Sybil of the Rhine'. The play focuses on an incident that occurred several months before her death in which Hildegard had been ordered to disinter and remove the body of a benefactor from the convent cemetery as he had been excommunicated from the church. It celebrates Hildegard's "heroic struggle and her personal triumph as an artist and a woman who shaped the politics of her time" (McDonald, 2006).
-Characters: The Abbess - Eighty-one years old. A complex and contradictory personality, alternating between the image of a frail old woman and a figure of tremendous power and authority, capable of both abject humility and high-born arrogance.
+The characters in the play include:
-Written for *** and produced by ** in California in 2000. First published in the [[South African Theatre Journal]] 2005.
+* The Abbess - Eighty-one years old. A complex and contradictory personality, alternating between the image of a frail old woman and a figure of tremendous power and authority, capable of both abject humility and high-born arrogance.
 == Performances ==

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-''The Abbess'' by [[Athol Fugard]]. Based on an episode in the Life of Hildegard of Bingen, a play about the abbess *** who wrote plays in the 14th century??**.
+''The Abbess'' is a play by [[Athol Fugard]] (1932-).
 Characters: The Abbess - Eighty-one years old. A complex and contradictory personality, alternating between the image of a frail old woman and a figure of tremendous power and authority, capable of both abject humility and high-born arrogance.
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 Written for *** and produced by ** in California in 2000. First published in the [[South African Theatre Journal]] 2005.
-Return to [[ESAT Plays 1 A|A]]
+Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]
-Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
+Return to [[The ESAT Entries]]
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 Characters: The Abbess - Eighty-one years old. A complex and contradictory personality, alternating between the image of a frail old woman and a figure of tremendous power and authority, capable of both abject humility and high-born arrogance.
-Guibert - A monk, the Abbess’s secretary and confessor. Scholarly and precise. Midthirties.
+Guibert - A monk, the Abbess’s secretary and confessor. Scholarly and precise. Mid-thirties.
 Volmar - A memory. The Abbess’s former secretary, teacher and confidant, now deceased. Mid-seventies. Great depth of character and profundity. A beautiful human being. He has been dead for fifteen years.
 Richardis - Also a memory. Young and beautiful. At one time the Abbess’s favourite. She has been dead about thirty years.

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−	''The Abbess'' by [[Athol Fugard]]. A play about the abbess * who wrote plays in the 14th century??. Written for * and produced by in California in 2000. First published in the [[South African Theatre Journal]] 2005.	+	''The Abbess'' by [[Athol Fugard]]. Based on an episode in the Life of Hildegard of Bingen, a play about the abbess * who wrote plays in the 14th century??.
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		+	Characters: The Abbess - Eighty-one years old. A complex and contradictory personality, alternating between the image of a frail old woman and a figure of tremendous power and authority, capable of both abject humility and high-born arrogance.
		+	Guibert - A monk, the Abbess’s secretary and confessor. Scholarly and precise. Midthirties.
		+	Volmar - A memory. The Abbess’s former secretary, teacher and confidant, now deceased. Mid-seventies. Great depth of character and profundity. A beautiful human being. He has been dead for fifteen years.
		+	Richardis - Also a memory. Young and beautiful. At one time the Abbess’s favourite. She has been dead about thirty years.
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		+	Written for * and produced by in California in 2000. First published in the [[South African Theatre Journal]] 2005.

The Abbess - Revision history

Temple: /* The play */

Temple: /* Sources */

Darryl at 13:37, 9 December 2025

Darryl: /* The play */

Darryl at 08:44, 27 September 2023

Darryl at 08:44, 27 September 2023

Ivor at 10:50, 14 February 2018

Miriamt at 12:21, 13 June 2013

Miriamt: Created page with "''The Abbess'' by Athol Fugard. A play about the abbess *** who wrote plays in the 14th century??**. Written for *** and produced by ** in California in 2000. First published..."

Miriamt: Created page with "''The Abbess'' by Athol Fugard. A play about the abbess * who wrote plays in the 14th century??. Written for * and produced by in California in 2000. First published..."