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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
1972: The première production was staged by the [[University Theatre of Stellenbosch]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] in September 1972, directed by [[Robin Malan]], with a cast of all the students in the Drama Department, including [[Tarina Kleyn]] (Miss Los Istrata), [[Johann van Heerden]] (agent 0011CIAMI5KGBSB), [[Dawie Malan]] (UK no. 1 & Marlene Dietrich), [[Tessa Cowan]], [[Elsabe Kok]], [[Sybil Coetzee]], [[Awie de Swardt]], [[Deon Bosman]] (Boris Itsykrotch Hahvitov), [[Ilse Treurnicht]], [[Jannie Botes]] (USA no. 2), [[Lindy Smith]] (Miss UK), [[Chris Truter]] (USSR no. 3), [[Chris Visser]], and others (all playing various roles). Music by [[Deon Bosman]], choreography by [[Jacqui Singer]], costumes by [[Elaine Aucamp]] and lighting by [[Emile Aucamp]].
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 11:33, 1 June 2023

Miss Los Istrata is a bilingual (Afrikaans & English) adaptation of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata (411 B.C.) by Robin Malan.

See also the entry on Lysistrata

The original text

The action is set at a contemporary Miss World competition where a “sex strike” for world peace and women’s liberation is led by one of the contenders, the representative of a small South American country.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

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