La vita che ti diedi

La vita che ti diedi (The Life I Gave You) is a 1923 play by Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello [1].

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans by Con de Villiers as Die Lewe wat ek jou Gegee het.

Performance history in South Africa

1964: Die Lewe wat ek jou Gegee het was staged by PACT in the National Theatre in Pretoria, the Library Theatre in Johannesburg and taken on tour in the Transvaal. It was directed by Victor Melleney and the cast included Anna Neethling-Pohl (Donn'Anna), Kita Redelinghuys (Lucia), Francois Swart (Don Giorgio), Wena Naudé (Donna Fiorina), Leonora Nel (Elisabetta), James Norval (Giovanni), Salomi Louw (Lida), Roelf Laubscher (Flavio), Elsa Fouche (Francesca) and others. Décor by Raimond Schoop, costumes by Margaret Louttit.

1964: Die Lewe wat ek jou Gegee het was directed by Fred Engelen, assisted by Annatjie Vorster, for the Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in the Botha Hall in Stellenbosch, in September, during the Stellenbosch Arts Festival. Members of the cast were Anna Neethling-Pohl (Donn'Anna), Tine Balder (Lucia), Ben Verwey (Don Giorgio), Marie van Heerden (Donna Fiorina), Antoinette Terblanche (Lida), Franz Marx (Flavio), Madelein Viljoen (Francesca), Gertie Smith-Visser (Elisabetta), Willem de la Guerre (Giovanni), Woutrine Theron et al. Décor by Fred Engelen and Willem de la Guerre, Costumes by Elise Ziervogel. After the Stellenbosch run, the production was staged in the Hofmeyr Theatre in Cape Town.

Sources

PACT report 1963/64.

PACT theatre programme, 1964.

UTS theatre programme, 1964.

Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.

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