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==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
The play is known as ''[[The Strong Are Lonely]]'' in English, possibly translated under that title by [[Basil Warner]] for performance in South Africa.
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The play is known as ''[[The Strong Are Lonely]]'' in English, possibly translated under that title by [[Basil Warner]] for performance in South Africa, should one credit Frederic M. Litto's (surely erronious) attribution of it as an original play by Warner.
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

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Das Heilige Experiment is a German play by Austrian playwright Fritz Hochwaelder [1] (1911-1986).

The original text

Hochwaelder wrote social and political dramas, using historical themes in his plays. The Strong Are Lonely written in 1942-3, drew on the violent dismantling of a utopian Jesuit settlement by the Spaniards in Paraguay in the 1760s.

Translations and adaptations

The play is known as The Strong Are Lonely in English, possibly translated under that title by Basil Warner for performance in South Africa, should one credit Frederic M. Litto's (surely erronious) attribution of it as an original play by Warner.

Performance history in South Africa

1957: Presented by the Johannesburg Repertory Players , directed by Cecil Williams, with sets designed by Anthony Farmer and Charles Stodel in the cast, at the Library Theatre, Johannesburg, in June.

Sources

Frederick M. Litto. 1968. Plays from Black Africa. New York: Hill and Wang.

Theatre programme held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 13. 1167.

Tucker, 1997. 107.

Oliver Walker. Press clipping of review by held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 20. 1. 17.


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