Herr Sleeman kommer
Herr Sleeman kommer ("Mr Sleeman is Coming") is a Swedish one-act play by Hjalmar Bergman (1883-1931)[1].
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The original play
Written in 1917 it tells the tale of an orphaned young woman, urged by her aunts to marry a rich old man.
Translations and adaptations
In 1957 a TV film version was made by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman[2]
1953: Cornelius January (1997) writes that a full-length English play entitled Mr Sleeman is Coming by Denis Rhodes Granger was produced for the Worcester Dramatic Society in 1953, directed by Granger himself. This is most probably a mistake and the play used was the English translation of the Bergman one-act play.
1963: Translated into Afrikaans as Meneer Sleeman Kom (most probably from the English) by Leonora Nel.
Performance history in South Africa
1949: Mr Sleeman is Coming was presented by the University of Cape Town’s University Dramatic Society (sponsors) at the Little Theatre in October, directed by Arnold Pearce.
1963: Meneer Sleeman Kom was first produced by PACT, as a double bill with Die Skuld van Oedipus, in 1963, in the Pretoria National Theatre. Directed by Leonora Nel, with Kita Redelinghuijs, Leonora Nel, Vicki Vosloo/Phyllis Punt, Ernst Eloff and Jannie Gildenhuys.
Sources
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hjalmar-Fredrik-Elgerus-Bergman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Sleeman_Is_Coming.
Cornelius January 1997. 'n Vergelykende studie ten opsigte van die aktiwiteite van stedelike swart amateur gemeenskapsgroepe en plattelandse Swart amateur gemeenskapsgroepe in die apartheidsjare. Unpublished master’s thesis. Bellville: University of the Western Cape.
Donald Inskip 1972. Forty Little Years: The Story of a Theatre. Cape Town: Howard Timmins: p.136.
PACT Report 1963/64.
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