The War of the Worlds - Revision history

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 Programme notes for the Stellenbosch production
-Copy of the typed text found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022 and 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.
+Two copies of the typed text  (one with a review), found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022 and 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.
 [[Kobus Oosthuizen]]. 1999. "Martians ignore the script", ''[[Argus]]'' Tonight (Review): 27 May.
 [[Danie Botha]]. 1999. "Skouspel prikkel nie die gemoed", ''[[Die Burger]]'' (Review): 27 May.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 Programme notes for the Stellenbosch production
-Copy of the typed text found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022 and 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..
+Copy of the typed text found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022 and 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.
 [[Kobus Oosthuizen]]. 1999. "Martians ignore the script", ''[[Argus]]'' Tonight (Review): 27 May.

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 Programme notes for the Stellenbosch production
-Copy of the typed text found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022.
+Copy of the typed text found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2022 and 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..
 [[Kobus Oosthuizen]]. 1999. "Martians ignore the script", ''[[Argus]]'' Tonight (Review): 27 May.

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 The popular novel has never been out of print and has been most influential, being the original source for at least six feature films, a number of radio dramas, a record album, comic book adaptations, television series and spin offs of various kinds by other authors. It was famously adapted for radio in a 1938 radio programme, directed by and starring Orson Welles. The broadcast apparently caused public panic among listeners who did not know the book's events were fictional.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds]
-A 1999 South African adaptation for the stage was done in what is referred to as "a  physical theatre interpretation", by choreographer/director [[Samantha Pienaar]] in 1999, a century after the original publication. According to the programme notes, the subsequent production hoped to do on theatrical level what the quest for knowledge in the intervening 100 years did, i.e. to explore time and space as fragmented, cyclical, emotional and physical.
+A 1999 South African adaptation for the stage was done in what is referred to as "a  physical theatre interpretation", by choreographer/director [[Samantha Pienaar]], a century after the original publication. According to the programme notes, the subsequent production hoped to do on theatrical level what the quest for knowledge in the intervening 100 years did, i.e. to explore time and space as fragmented, cyclical, emotional and physical.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==

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	[[Danie Botha]]. 1999. "Skouspel prikkel nie die gemoed", ''[[Die Burger]]'' (Review): 27 May.		[[Danie Botha]]. 1999. "Skouspel prikkel nie die gemoed", ''[[Die Burger]]'' (Review): 27 May.
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-Return to [[ESAT Plays 2 W|W]] in Plays II Foreign Plays
+Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
-Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
+Return to [[South_African_Films]]
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 ==The original novel==
-It is the first-person narrative of the adventures of an unnamed protagonist and his brother in Surrey and London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.
+It is the first-person narrative of the adventures of an unnamed protagonist and his brother in Surrey and London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds]
 First published by William Heinemann (in the UK) and by Harper & Bros (US).

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Famously adapted for radio and read by Orson Welles
+The popular novel has never been out of print and has been most influential, being the original source for at least six feature films, a number of radio dramas, a record album, comic book adaptations, television series and spin offs of various kinds by other authors. It was famously adapted for radio in a 1938 radio programme, directed by and starring Orson Welles. The broadcast apparently caused public panic among listeners who did not know the book's events were fictional.
 Adapted for the stage in what is referred to as "a  physical theatre interpretation", by choreographer/director [[Samantha Pienaar]] in 1999, a century after the original publication. According to the programme notes, the subsequent production hoped to do on theatrical level what the quest for knowledge in the intervening 100 years did, i.e. to explore time and space as fragmented, cyclical, emotional and physical.