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Performance history in South Africa

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Performance history in South Africa

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	1993: Presented by Malcolm Lütge, directed by [[Debbie Mailovich]], starring [[Debbie Lütge]] and [[Esmael Texeira]] at the [[National Arts Festival]] Fringe.		1993: Presented by Malcolm Lütge, directed by [[Debbie Mailovich]], starring [[Debbie Lütge]] and [[Esmael Texeira]] at the [[National Arts Festival]] Fringe.
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		+	2016: Presented by [[UFS Drama Department]] at the [[Scaena Theatre]], UFS, directed by [[Dion van Niekerk]].

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 : Presented by the [[University of Cape Town]]'s University Dramatic Society at the [[Little Theatre]] in June, directed by [[P. Grobbelaar]].
-: A [[Baxter Theatre]] Production was directed and designed by [[Ken Leach]] in a double bill with ''[[The Dumb Waiter]]'', opening 25 January 1980, starring [[Richard Cox]] and [[Jacqui Singer]].
+: A [[Baxter Theatre]] Production was directed and designed by [[Ken Leach]] in a double bill with ''[[The Dumb Waiter]]'', opening in the [[Baxter Studio Theatre]] on 25 January 1980, starring [[Richard Cox]] and [[Jacqui Singer]].
 : [[Lanon Prigge]], [[Tamara Rabinowitz]] and [[Alasdair Gordon-Findlayson]] starred in the [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] Honours student production, directed by [[Julia Boltt]], in September 1992.

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 Two plays with this title have been produced in South Africa:
 = ''The Lover'', by Harold Pinter =
- ''The Lover'' is a 1962 one-act play by English playwright Harold Pinter (1930-2008) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter]. Pinter leads the audience to believe that there are three characters in the play: the wife, the husband and the lover. But the lover who comes to call in the afternoons is revealed to be the husband adopting a role. He plays the lover for her: she plays the whore for him. The play contrasts bourgeois domesticity with sexual yearning.
+''The Lover'' is a 1962 one-act play by English playwright Harold Pinter (1930-2008) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter]. Pinter leads the audience to believe that there are three characters in the play: the wife, the husband and the lover. But the lover who comes to call in the afternoons is revealed to be the husband adopting a role. He plays the lover for her: she plays the whore for him. The play contrasts bourgeois domesticity with sexual yearning.
 The play was first presented by Associated-Rediffusion Television, London, 28 March 1963.

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-There are two plays with this title:
+Two plays with this title have been produced in South Africa:
-. ''The Lover'' is a 1962 one-act play by English playwright Harold Pinter (1930-2008) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter]. Pinter leads the audience to believe that there are three characters in the play: the wife, the husband and the lover. But the lover who comes to call in the afternoons is revealed to be the husband adopting a role. He plays the lover for her: she plays the whore for him. The play contrasts bourgeois domesticity with sexual yearning.
+There are two South African plays by this name.
 The play was first presented by Associated-Rediffusion Television, London, 28 March 1963.
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 Published by Methuen in 1964.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: ''The Lover'' (Martinez Sierra): Presented by the Repertory Theatre Society, later known as the [[Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society]] performed on 7 April 1943 in a double bill with ''[[The Pineapple Barrow]]''.
+: Presented by the [[University of Cape Town]]'s University Dramatic Society at the [[Little Theatre]] in June, directed by [[P. Grobbelaar]].
-: ''The Lover'' (Pinter): A [[Baxter Theatre]] Production was directed and designed by [[Ken Leach]] in a double bill with ''[[The Dumb Waiter]]'', opening 25 January 1980, starring [[Richard Cox]] and [[Jacqui Singer]].
+: A [[Baxter Theatre]] Production was directed and designed by [[Ken Leach]] in a double bill with ''[[The Dumb Waiter]]'', opening 25 January 1980, starring [[Richard Cox]] and [[Jacqui Singer]].
-: ''The Lover'' (Pinter): [[Lanon Prigge]], [[Tamara Rabinowitz]] and [[Alasdair Gordon-Findlayson]] starred in the [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] Honours student production, directed by [[Julia Boltt]], in September 1992.
+: [[Lanon Prigge]], [[Tamara Rabinowitz]] and [[Alasdair Gordon-Findlayson]] starred in the [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] Honours student production, directed by [[Julia Boltt]], in September 1992.
-: ''The Lover'' (Pinter) Presented by Malcolm Lütge, directed by [[Debbie Mailovich]], starring [[Debbie Lütge]] and [[Esmael Texeira]] at the [[National Arts Festival]] Fringe.
+: Presented by Malcolm Lütge, directed by [[Debbie Mailovich]], starring [[Debbie Lütge]] and [[Esmael Texeira]] at the [[National Arts Festival]] Fringe.
 == Sources ==
 Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lover_(play)].
-[[NELM]]: [Collection: FLETCHER, Jill]: 2005. 75. 19. 61. (Martinez Sierra)
+[[ESAT Bibliography I|Inskip]], 1972. p.151.
 Theatre programme (Baxter), 1980.
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 Photographs of the cast (Rhodes production) held by [[NELM]]: [Collection: Rhodes University. Drama Department]: 2008. 51. 4. 8. 4. 3.
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 : ''The Lover'' (Pinter): [[Lanon Prigge]], [[Tamara Rabinowitz]] and [[Alasdair Gordon-Findlayson]] starred in the [[Rhodes University Drama Department]] Honours student production, directed by [[Julia Boltt]], in September 1992.
 ==Translations and adaptations==
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 Theatre programme (Baxter), 1980.
-Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. ''Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987''
+Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. ''Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987''.
 Photographs of the cast (Rhodes production) held by [[NELM]]: [Collection: Rhodes University. Drama Department]: 2008. 51. 4. 8. 4. 3.

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−	2. ''The Lover'' by Spanish writer, poet, dramatist, and theatre director Gregorio Martinez Sierra [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Mart%C3%ADnez_Sierra] (1881-1947).	+	2. ''The Lover'' is a one-act play by Spanish writer, poet, dramatist, and theatre director Gregorio Martinez Sierra [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Mart%C3%ADnez_Sierra] (1881-1947).

	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==