The Bewitched Tree - Revision history

Darryl: /* Puppetry performances */

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Puppetry performances

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Source

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Film version (1971)

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Puppetry performances

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The puppet text

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 == Puppetry performances ==
 : First performed with glove puppets by the [[Cape Puppet Players]] and directed by [[Lily Herzberg]] with [[Tony Fletcher]] as chief puppeteer, aided by the puppeteers [[Myra Bloomberg]], [[Greet Snoek]], [[Ruth Yudelowitz]], [[Denis Bettesworth|Dennis Bettesworth]], [[Cleone Bond-Smith]], [[Sia Cohen]], [[Ronald Fenton]], [[Ruth James]], [[Dick Snoek]] and [[Norman Sargeant]].
 : Performed by [[Cecily Bova]] and her puppeteers at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in 1979.

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 == Source ==
-Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. ''Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987''.
+[[ESAT Bibliography Bar-Bas|Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne]] 1988.
 [[Freddy Ogterop]] E-mail communication 14 June 2016.

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	= Film version (1971)=		= Film version (1971)=

−	A filmed version of [[Lily Herzberg]]'s text as performed with glove puppets by the [[Cape Puppet Players]] was made by [[Lewis Lewis]] in 1971. The puppets directed by [[Lily Herzberg]], with [[Tony Fletcher]] (Chief Puppeteer) , [[Myra Bloomberg]], [[Greet Snoek]], [[Ruth Yudelowitz]], [[Dennis Bettesworth]], [[Cleone Bond-Smith]], [[Sia Cohen]], [[Ronald Fenton]], [[Ruth James]], [[Dick Snoek]] and [[Norman Sargeant]].	+	A filmed version of [[Lily Herzberg]]'s text as performed with glove puppets by the [[Cape Puppet Players]] was made by [[Lewis Lewis]] in 1971. The puppets directed by [[Lily Herzberg]], with [[Tony Fletcher]] (Chief Puppeteer) , [[Myra Bloomberg]], [[Greet Snoek]], [[Ruth Yudelowitz]], [[Denis Bettesworth\|Dennis Bettesworth]], [[Cleone Bond-Smith]], [[Sia Cohen]], [[Ronald Fenton]], [[Ruth James]], [[Dick Snoek]] and [[Norman Sargeant]].

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-: First performed with glove puppets by the [[Cape Puppet Players]] and directed by [[Lily Herzberg]] with [[Tony Fletcher]] as chief puppeteer, aided by the puppeteers [[Myra Bloomberg]], [[Greet Snoek]], [[Ruth Yudelowitz]], [[Dennis Bettesworth]], [[Cleone Bond-Smith]], [[Sia Cohen]], [[Ronald Fenton]], [[Ruth James]], [[Dick Snoek]] and [[Norman Sargeant]].
+: First performed with glove puppets by the [[Cape Puppet Players]] and directed by [[Lily Herzberg]] with [[Tony Fletcher]] as chief puppeteer, aided by the puppeteers [[Myra Bloomberg]], [[Greet Snoek]], [[Ruth Yudelowitz]], [[Denis Bettesworth|Dennis Bettesworth]], [[Cleone Bond-Smith]], [[Sia Cohen]], [[Ronald Fenton]], [[Ruth James]], [[Dick Snoek]] and [[Norman Sargeant]].
 : Performed by [[Cecily Bova]] and her puppeteers at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in 1979.
 = Film version (1971)=

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 == The puppet text ==
-The original text was based on an African folk legend about an evil otter who lives in a tree he has bewitched and destroys the crops of an old man, Moeti. All efforts by everyone, including a warrior, the elephant and the lion, to kill the otter fail and finally it is the intelligent hare who succeeds and marries Moeti's daughter, the beautiful Malatsepa.
+The original text was based on an [[African]] folk legend about an evil otter who lives in a tree he has bewitched and destroys the crops of an old man, Moeti. All efforts by everyone, including a warrior, the elephant and the lion, to kill the otter fail and finally it is the intelligent hare who succeeds and marries Moeti's daughter, the beautiful Malatsepa.
 == Puppetry performances ==

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−	The Bewitched Tree is a glove puppet version of an African folk legend, dramatised by [[Lily Herzberg]].	+	''[[The Bewitched Tree]]'' is a glove puppet version of an [[African]] folk legend, dramatised by [[Lily Herzberg]].

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-''The Bewitched Tree'', by [[Lily Herzberg]]. Performed by [[Cecily Bova]] and her puppeteers at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in 1979.
+The Bewitched Tree is a glove puppet version of an African folk legend, dramatised by [[Lily Herzberg]].
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+Adapted and dramatized for puppets by [[Lily Herzberg]].
-Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
+== Puppetry performances ==
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−	''The Bewitched Tree'', by [[Lily ~~Hertzberg~~]]. Performed by [[Cecily Bova]] and her puppeteers at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in 1979.	+	''The Bewitched Tree'', by [[Lily Herzberg]]. Performed by [[Cecily Bova]] and her puppeteers at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in 1979.

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−	''The Bewitched Tree'', by [[Lily Hertzberg]].	+	''The Bewitched Tree'', by [[Lily Hertzberg]]. Performed by [[Cecily Bova]] and her puppeteers at the [[Baxter Theatre]] in 1979.