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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 07:26, 13 April 2016
The Master Builder is the English title for Bygmester Solness by Henrik Ibsen.
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The original play
First performed on 19 January 1893 at the Lessing Theatre, Berlin,and in English at the Trafalgar Theatre, London on the 20th February 1993. First published in Norwegian in December 1893.
Translations and adaptations
Translated it into Afrikaans as Boumeester Solness by Con de Villiers.
Performance history in South Africa
1926: Performed in English as The Master Builder by the Unie-debatsvereniging in Stellenbosch on 12 August 1926, directed by Con de Villiers.
1935: Performed in Afrikaans as Boumeester Solness by Ons Teatertjie Toneelgroep, Pretoria, as their very first production in October 1935, directed by Leoni Pienaar.
1938: Performed in Afrikaans as Boumeester Solness by the Handhawers Toneelgeselskap in Bloemfontein.
1957: Performed in English as The Master Builder by NTO in 1957. Directed by Anna Neethling-Pohl. Solness was played by John Boyd-Brent; Janet Butler, Evadne Kohler-Baker, Susan Ridsdale, Leonard Graham, Pat Trevor, Simon Swindell completed the cast.
1962: Performed English as The Master Builder in the Playhouse, Johannesburg, by Leon Gluckman and Colin Fish, starring Sir Donald Wolfit.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_Builder
Lantern, 7(1), 1957.
Rinie Stead, 1938b
Temple Hauptfleisch and Hilda van Lill, 2011.
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