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''[[Police]]'' is a play by Slawomir Mrozek (1930-2013)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek].
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#REDIRECT [[Policja]]
  
Also referred to as '''''[[The Police]]''''' in some sources.
 
 
==The original text==
 
 
The play, Mrozek's first, is set in a mythical country where the secret police have been so successful that all opposition to the ruling tyrannical regime has disappeared.
 
 
The play premiered in Warsaw on 27 June 1958. Performed in English at the Phoenix Theatre in New York in 1961.
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
Translated into English by Nicholas Bethell.
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
1971: Presented by [[CAPAB]] Drama at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] in a double bill with ''[[The Real Inspector Hound]]'' with direction and decor by [[Mavis Taylor]] in October 1971. The cast: [[Johan Malherbe]] (Chief of police), [[Nerina Ferreira]] (Wife), [[Paul Slabolepszy]] (Policeman), [[Pietro Nolte]] (Band), [[Ronald France]] (Prisoner/Aide), [[Phillip Boucher]] (General), [[Roger Dwyer]] (Sergeant). Costumes by [[Jennifer Craig]] and [[Mavis Taylor]], lighting devised by [[Scott Robertson]], music selected by [[Michael Tuffin]].
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%82awomir_Mro%C5%BCek
 
 
''[[Police]]'' theatre programme, 1971.
 
 
 
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