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'''''Moumou''''' is a 1944 farce for adult audiences by French playwright Jean de Létraz (1897-1954) [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_L%C3%A9traz].
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==Translations and adaptations==
 
Translated into English as '''''Pyjama Tops''''' by Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert in the 1950s.
 
 
 
Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''Jôli-Jôli''''' by [[Mikro]].
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
1963: ''Pyjama Tops'', the English translation, staged by the [[Brian Brooke Company]] in the [[Brooke Theatre]] in Johannesburg, directed by [[Valerie Miller]], with [[Leonne Carnot]] (Claudine), [[Roger Spence]] (Inspector Legrand), [[Nina Alova]] (Yvonne Chauvinet), [[Victor Melleney]] (Georges Chauvinet), [[Brian Brooke]] (Leonard Jolijoli), [[Elaine Lee]] (Babette Latouche) and [[Bill Brewer]] (Jacques). decor by [[Pamela Lewis]].
 
 
 
1977: [[PACT]] staged the [[Mikro]] [[Afrikaans]] translation ''Jôli-Jôli'' in the [[Breytenbach Theatre]] in Pretoria and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in Johannesburg, directed by [[Louis van Niekerk]], featuring [[Harriet Pienaar]] (Claudine), [[David van der Merwe]] (Inspekteur Legrand), [[Louise Mollett-Prinsloo]] (Yvonne Chauvinet), [[Louis van Niekerk]] (Georges Chauvinet), [[Gerben Kamper]] (Leonard Jôli-Jôli), [[Elise Hibbert]] (Babette Latouche), and [[John Harley]] (Jacques). Decor by [[Jan Hamers]] and costumes by [[Anthoinette Lombard]].
 
 
 
1979-80: ''Pyjama Tops'', the English translation, staged by the [[Toerien-Firth Company]] at the [[André Huguenet Theatre]], opening 9 November, and at the [[Baxter Theatre]], directed by [[Alexander Doré]], with [[Leonne Carnot]], [[Len Sparrow-Hawk]], [[Ivor Berold]], [[Tobie Cronjé]], [[Volenté Bertotti]], [[Peter J. Elliott]], [[Sandy Wahba]], [[Charmaine Jay]], [[Tinah Lebea]] and [[Martina Stöckl]].
 
 
 
1981: Another production of ''Pyjama Tops'', staged by the [[Toerien-Firth Company]] at the [[Baxter Theatre]], this time directed by [[Peter J. Elliott]], with [[Leonne Carnot]], [[Len Sparrow-Hawk]], [[Caroline Fox]], [[Michael Findlay]], [[Jimmy Thompson]], [[Kryska Witkowska]], [[Peter J. Elliot]], [[Sandy Wahba]], [[Tinah Lebea]], [[Bernadine Bezuidenhout]] and [[Geraldine Fitzgerald]].
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
The [[Brian Brooke Company]] theatre programme (undated).
 
 
 
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. ''Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987''.
 
 
 
[[PACT]] theatre programme, 1977.
 
 
 
[[Petru Wessels|Petru]] & [[Carel Trichardt]] theatre programme collection.
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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