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| − | This was a satiric poem[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_(Byron)] by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women. | + | This was a satiric poem[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_(Byron)] by Lord Byron, based on the legend of [[Don Juan]], which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women. |
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| + | Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Don Juan]]'' by [[Nerina Ferreira]] in 1974 and performed in 1975 by CAPAB. | ||
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[[Nico Malan Theatre]] Centre pamphlet. | [[Nico Malan Theatre]] Centre pamphlet. | ||
Revision as of 05:48, 21 June 2015
Don Juan is the name of a fictional character about whom many literary and other works have been created.
Contents
The character
The original creation
The character Don Juan was created by Spanish playwright, Tirso de Molina[1], in his 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra ("The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest"), and the name of the character has since become common metaphor for a "womanizer".
There have been numerous works written and produced about the character and tapping into the notion of the "Don Juan" in society. Below are a number of texts or adaptations done in South Africa, and bearing the title Don Juan, using Don Juan, or a person with Don Juan-like characteristics, as a character, which were produced in , or have links with, South Africa.
(For other examples see for instance Oscar Mandel's useful 1986 book The Theatre of Don Juan: A Collection of Plays and Views, 1630-1963, published by the University of Nebraska Press[2]).
Plays and films containing the name Don Juan, or using the character
Plays
International versions
Don Juan in Hell (George Bernard Shaw)
Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie (Max Frisch)
South African versions
Don Juan onder die Boere (Bartho Smit)
Don Juan or 'The Nightmare of Venus' (Chris Pretorius)
Don Gxubane Onner die Boere (Charles Fourie)
Films
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Don_Juan
Plays bearing the title Don Juan
Don Juan by Lord Byron
This was a satiric poem[3] by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted for the stage by Roberta Durrant
Performances in South Africa
1980: Performed as a play at the Market Theatre Upstairs in June, directed by Roberta Durrant, with Vanessa Cooke, Nigel Daly, David Eppel, Janice Honeyman and Terry Norton. Lighting designs were by John White-Spunner, choreography by Dinah Eppel, and stage management by Margaret Ramsay.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_(Byron)
Pat Schwartz, 1988: p. 235
Don Juan by Max Frisch
This is the Afrikaans title used for Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie, a German comedy in five acts by Max Frisch[4] (1911-1991).
Translated into Afrikaans as Don Juan by Nerina Ferreira in 1974 and performed in 1975 by CAPAB.
See also Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie for more details on the production.
Sources
Nico Malan Theatre Centre pamphlet.
Photograph by Paul Alberts, NELM.
Films bearing the title Don Juan
Don Juan (1926)
This is a 1926 film by Alan Crosland[5] =
First shown in South Africa in 192*, inter alia at the Orpheum Theatre, Johannesburg.
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