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''[[The Room]]'' is a play by Harold Pinter ()[].  
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''[[The Room]]'' is a play by Harold Pinter (1930 – 2008)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter].  
  
is Harold Pinter's first play, written and first produced in 1957.
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==The original text==
  
Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Die Kamer]]'', by an unnamed translator. A copy of the typed text held in the archive of the Drama Department at the [[University of Stellenbosch]]
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This was Harold Pinter's first play, written and first produced in 1957.
  
==The original text==
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==Translations and adaptations==
  
==Translations and adaptations==
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Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Die Kamer]]'', by an unnamed translator. A copy of the typed text found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
  
1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(play)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter
  
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205
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Copies of the English text and the [[Afrikaans]] translation, found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street,
  
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Latest revision as of 06:54, 7 July 2025

The Room is a play by Harold Pinter (1930 – 2008)[1].

The original text

This was Harold Pinter's first play, written and first produced in 1957.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Die Kamer, by an unnamed translator. A copy of the typed text found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department's theatre archives and now held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(play)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Pinter

Copies of the English text and the Afrikaans translation, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department's theatre archives and now held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street,

Go to ESAT Bibliography

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