The Seven Deadly Sins - Revision history

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-An original [[cabaret]]/"morality" by [[Hennie Aucamp]] and [[Barry Strydom]], the play was inspired by, and based on Aucamp's ideas, as developed for the introduction to ''Sewe Sondes, Nee Meer: Verhale en Essays oor Dood- en Ander Stories'' ("Seven sins, no more: Stories and essays on death and other stories"), compiled by Hennie Aucamp and published by [[Human and Rousseau]] in 1995.   The book contains sixteen stories and essays by well-known well-known writers, mainly on death and the concept of sin.
+An original [[cabaret]]/"morality" by [[Hennie Aucamp]] and [[Barry Strydom]], the play was inspired by, and based on Aucamp's ideas, as developed for the introduction to ''Sewe Sondes, Nee Meer: Verhale en Essays oor Dood- en Ander Stories'' ("Seven sins, no more: Stories and essays on death and other stories"), compiled by [[Hennie Aucamp]] and published by [[Human and Rousseau]] in 1995.   The book contains sixteen stories and essays by well-known well-known writers, mainly on death and the concept of sin.
 Hennie Aucamp's original hand written manuscript of the play (accessible on the [[University of Stellenbosch]]'s ''[[SUNDigital Collections]]'' website[https://digital.lib.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.2/3918]) has the title  as "''[[Die Sewe Doodsondes: 'n Moraliteit]]''" ("The Seven Deadly Sins: a Morality"). It was performed as a [[cabaret]] by the [[University of Stellenbosch]] drama department under this title in 1995 (credited to Aucamp only) and then published as ''[[Van Hoogmoed tot Traagheid of Die Sewe Doodsondes]]'' ("From Pride to Sloth, or The Seven Deadly Sins")  by [[Human & Rousseau]] in 1996, with illustrations by [[Conrad Botes]].

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 ''[[Die Sewe Doodsondes]]'' programme, [[University of Stellenbosch]], 1995.
-Copy of the text, annotated with comments and translations of Afrikaans words. Probably a copy of a copy used by an English speaking technician for the 1995 Stellenbosch production. Found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022.
+Copy of the text, annotated with comments and translations of [[Afrikaans]] words. Probably a copy of a copy used by an English speaking technician for the 1995 Stellenbosch production. Found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022. Now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
 A CD titled ''[[Sewe Doodsondes]]'' accredited to [[Hennie Aucamp]] and [[Ewald Cress]]. Probably the soundtrack for the cabaret ''Die Sewe Doodsondes'' by [[Hennie Aucamp]].

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	https://www.maverickmusicals.com/play/seven-deadly-sins/		https://www.maverickmusicals.com/play/seven-deadly-sins/
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		+	[[Hennie Aucamp]].1994. Die Sewe Doodsondes in Kabaretverband. ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'' Volume 8 No 2: pp. 5-26 [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10137548.1994.9688120]

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 Copy of the text, annotated with comments and translations of Afrikaans words. Probably a copy of a copy used by an English speaking technician for the 1995 Stellenbosch production. Found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022.
-A CD titled ''[[Sewe Doodsondes]]'' accredited to [[Hennie Aucamp]] and [[Ewald Cress]]. Probebaly the soundtrack for the cabaret ''Die Sewe Doodsondes'' by [[Hennie Aucamp]].
+A CD titled ''[[Sewe Doodsondes]]'' accredited to [[Hennie Aucamp]] and [[Ewald Cress]]. Probably the soundtrack for the cabaret ''Die Sewe Doodsondes'' by [[Hennie Aucamp]].
 =Other dramatic works with this title=

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		+	"The Seven Deadly Sins (ballet chanté)", [[Wikipedia]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_(ballet_chant%C3%A9)]

	''The Seven Deadly Sins (play)'' in [[Wikipedia]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_(play)#:~:text=The%20Seven%20Deadly%20Sins%20was,of%20either%20part%20has%20survived.]		''The Seven Deadly Sins (play)'' in [[Wikipedia]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_(play)#:~:text=The%20Seven%20Deadly%20Sins%20was,of%20either%20part%20has%20survived.]

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−	~~"The Seven Deadly Sins (ballet chanté)", [[Wikipedia]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_(ballet_chant%C3%A9)]~~

	https://woordfees.co.za/en/program/die-sewe-doodsondes/		https://woordfees.co.za/en/program/die-sewe-doodsondes/

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 ==Sources==
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_(ballet_chant%C3%A9)
+"The Seven Deadly Sins (ballet chanté)", [[Wikipedia]][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Deadly_Sins_(ballet_chant%C3%A9)]
 https://woordfees.co.za/en/program/die-sewe-doodsondes/

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	George Boshoff, Eversdal. 2022. Letter: 'Die Sewe Doodsondes' kom al lank, ''[[Die Burger]]'', 13 August 2022: p.18		George Boshoff, Eversdal. 2022. Letter: 'Die Sewe Doodsondes' kom al lank, ''[[Die Burger]]'', 13 August 2022: p.18

		+	[[Hennie Aucamp]].1994. Die Sewe Doodsondes in Kabaretverband. ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'' Volume 8 No 2: pp. 5-26 [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10137548.1994.9688120]

	https://www.netwerk24.com/netwerk24/kunste/feeste/woordfees/brecht-en-weil-se-sewe-doodsondes-n-1ste-in-afrikaans-en-sa-20220809		https://www.netwerk24.com/netwerk24/kunste/feeste/woordfees/brecht-en-weil-se-sewe-doodsondes-n-1ste-in-afrikaans-en-sa-20220809

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 Aucamp's seemingly literal translation, also formed the basis of a radical [[Afrikaans]] adaptation of the work by [[Charl-John Lingenfelder]] in 2022.
-''Not to be confused with Aucamp's own rendition of the concept of the seven deadly sins in his similarly titled work, first produced in 1995.''
+''The translation referred to is not to be confused with Aucamp's own rendition of the concept of the seven deadly sins in his similarly titled work, first produced in 1995.''
 ==South African performances==

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-There is an unfinished manuscript of ''[[Die Sewe Doodsondes]]'', an [[Afrikaans]] translation of the German text by [[Hennie Aucamp]], held in the [[Stellenbosch University]]'s Africana Library. Seemingly a literal translation, this formed the basis of a radical adaptation by [[Charl-John Lingenfelder]] in 2022.
+The German text was first translated by into English by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. There has since been another version by Michael Feingold.
 ''Not to be confused with Aucamp's own rendition of the concept of the seven deadly sins in his similarly titled work, first produced in 1995.''