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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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== The original text ==
 
 
 
Written in Portuguese in 1973, it is a play set in what looks like a school classroom and is a searing drama that looks deeply into the heart of power. 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.
 
 
 
 
 
The Portuguese play was banned, then censored in Brazil (the playwright's homeland).
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
Translated onto English as '''''[[Miss Margarida's Way]]''''' by the author and was first performed in the United States at the American Contemporary Theatre in San Francisco on 4 March 1975 and in New York in 1977. 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 ==
 
 
 
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Margarida%27s_Way
 
 
 
''[[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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