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''[[Apareceu a Margarida]]'' is a satirical Brazilian play by Roberto Athayde (born 1949) [https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Athayde].
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#REDIRECT [[Miss Margarida's Way]]
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
Written in Portuguese in 1973, it is a play is set in what looks like a school classroom. The play's cast typically consists of only two people: Miss Margarida, a school teacher, and a male student. This "student" often sits among the audience members, whom the "teacher" addresses and treats as if they were real school children.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
Translated onto English as '''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]''' and was first performed in the United States at the American Contemporary Theatre in San Francisco on 4 March 1975 and published by Avon Books in 1979.
 
 
 
The play was translated into [[Afrikaans]] by [[Wim Vorster]], title unknown.
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
THe English text performed as a Baxter Theatre production in 1981,  directed by [[Robin Sanders]], with [[Michelle du Toit]] as Miss Margarida and [[André Samuels]] as one of her students. Opened at the [[People's Space]] on 26 February 1981. Designer [[Jenny Gillis]], stage manager [[Kathy Batho]]
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
''[[Miss Magrida's Way. A Tragicomic Monologue for an Impetuous Woman]]'', [[Google Books]] [http://books.google.co.za/books?id=ysgtAAAAYAAJ&q=Miss+Margarida%27s+Way&dq=Miss+Margarida%27s+Way&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xbaAVJfKHoav7AbXqID4AQ&ved=0CBsQ6AewAA]
 
 
 
''Miss Margarida's Way'' theatre programme, 1981.
 
 
 
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. ''Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987''.
 
 
 
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