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'''''Die Soldaat''''' ("The Soldier") is the translation into [[Afrikaans]] by Mrs Strelen of a play by French playwright Paul Raynal (1885-1971) [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Raynal].
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'''''Die Soldaat''''' ("The Soldier") is the translation into [[Afrikaans]] by Mrs Strelen of ''Le Tombeau sous l’Arc de Triomphe'' by French playwright Paul Raynal (1885-1971) [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Raynal].
 
 
The typewritten translated text is available at the [[Stellenbosch University]] Library, Manuscripts Section. Reference 31/21/4.
 
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
The original is possibly the tragedy in three acts ''Le Tombeau sous l’Arc de Triomphe'' written in 1924, a powerful drama which shows a soldier on leave from the front and carries its tense scenes forward with merely three persons - the soldier himself, the girl to whom he is betrothed, and his father.
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The original is the tragedy in three acts ''Le Tombeau sous l’Arc de Triomphe'' written in 1924, a powerful drama which shows a soldier on leave from the front and carries its tense scenes forward with merely three persons - the soldier himself, the girl to whom he is betrothed (Aude), and his father.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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The typewritten translated text is available at the [[Stellenbosch University]] Library, Manuscripts Section. Reference 31/21/4.
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 16:09, 3 October 2016

Die Soldaat ("The Soldier") is the translation into Afrikaans by Mrs Strelen of Le Tombeau sous l’Arc de Triomphe by French playwright Paul Raynal (1885-1971) [1].

The original text

The original is the tragedy in three acts Le Tombeau sous l’Arc de Triomphe written in 1924, a powerful drama which shows a soldier on leave from the front and carries its tense scenes forward with merely three persons - the soldier himself, the girl to whom he is betrothed (Aude), and his father.

Translations and adaptations

The typewritten translated text is available at the Stellenbosch University Library, Manuscripts Section. Reference 31/21/4.

Performance history in South Africa

Presented by Volksteater in 1939, directed by Alexis Preller, with Anna Neethling-Pohl and H.J. Oberholzer in the leads.

Sources

World Drama by Allardyce Nicoll, 1949. 779.

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