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Translated by [[Roelf Laubscher]] into [[Afrikaans]] with the title ''Ons Dorp'', 1976. | Translated by [[Roelf Laubscher]] into [[Afrikaans]] with the title ''Ons Dorp'', 1976. | ||
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Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Immensely popular play about life in a small town, one of the most frequently staged American plays.
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It opened on January 22, 1938 at the McCarter Theater, Princeton, New Jersey, produced and directed by Jed Harris. The play moved to New York, where it opened at the Henry Miller Theater on February 4, 1938.
Translations and adaptations
Translated by Ulrich Stark into Afrikaans with the title Ons Dorp, DALRO, 1970.
Translated by Roelf Laubscher into Afrikaans with the title Ons Dorp, 1976.
See also Robert Mohr's adaptation Our Town/Ons Dorp.
Performance history in South Africa
Produced in South Africa in 1945. Directed by Taubie Kushlick, with **, Enid Grünewald,
Presented by the UCT Speech-Training Department, produced by Joyce Burch in the Little Theatre, March 1947. The cast: Michael Watermeyer, Zea Lurie, Ashné Kretzmar, Joyce Pienaar.
Ons Dorp produced by SUKOVS with stage management by Mavis Lilenstein, 1976.
Sources
South African Opinion, 4(2):19, 1947.
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