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1969: ''[[Die Idioot]]'', the Afrikaans version of the Barsacq text, was directed for [[CAPAB]] by [[Jo Gevers]], opening at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]] on 2 January 1969 and on 20 January 1969 in the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]], Cape Town. [[Jannie Gildenhuys]], [[Cobus Rossouw]], [[Ernst Eloff]] and [[Tine Balder]] in the lead roles, with [[Wena Naudé]], [[Pietro Nolte]], [[Fitz Morley]], [[Johan Malherbe]], [[Cheryl Heath]], [[Heléne Carstens]], [[Lianda Martin]], [[Val Donald]], [[Dawid van der Walt]], [[Leonora Nel]], [[Willem de la Querra]], [[Roelf Laubscher]], [[Martin Crous]], [[Will Bernard]] and [[Sandra Kotzé]]. Costumes designed by [[Jennifer Craig]]. | 1969: ''[[Die Idioot]]'', the Afrikaans version of the Barsacq text, was directed for [[CAPAB]] by [[Jo Gevers]], opening at the [[Port Elizabeth Opera House]] on 2 January 1969 and on 20 January 1969 in the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]], Cape Town. [[Jannie Gildenhuys]], [[Cobus Rossouw]], [[Ernst Eloff]] and [[Tine Balder]] in the lead roles, with [[Wena Naudé]], [[Pietro Nolte]], [[Fitz Morley]], [[Johan Malherbe]], [[Cheryl Heath]], [[Heléne Carstens]], [[Lianda Martin]], [[Val Donald]], [[Dawid van der Walt]], [[Leonora Nel]], [[Willem de la Querra]], [[Roelf Laubscher]], [[Martin Crous]], [[Will Bernard]] and [[Sandra Kotzé]]. Costumes designed by [[Jennifer Craig]]. | ||
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The Idiot is the English name of a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), as well as a number of plays, some based on his novel.
Some adaptations have different titles though, e.g. Subject to Fits by Robert Montgomery (described not as an adaptation, but as "a response" to Dostoyevsky's novel). .
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L'Idiot by André Barsacq (1966)
Adapted for the stage and translated into French as L'Idiot (Dostoevsky/Barsacq) by André Barsacq (1909-1973)[1], it was first performed in 1966 at the Théâtre de l'Atelier. Published on L'Avant-Scène Théâtre (n° 367, 1966) and was filmed and broadcast in 1968.
Translations and adaptations
Barsacq's adaptation translated into English as The Idiot
Barsacq's adaptation translated into Afrikaans as Die Idioot by A.E. Gevers-Vorster in 1969.
Performance history in South Africa
1969: Die Idioot, the Afrikaans version of the Barsacq text, was directed for CAPAB by Jo Gevers, opening at the Port Elizabeth Opera House on 2 January 1969 and on 20 January 1969 in the Hofmeyr Theatre, Cape Town. Jannie Gildenhuys, Cobus Rossouw, Ernst Eloff and Tine Balder in the lead roles, with Wena Naudé, Pietro Nolte, Fitz Morley, Johan Malherbe, Cheryl Heath, Heléne Carstens, Lianda Martin, Val Donald, Dawid van der Walt, Leonora Nel, Willem de la Querra, Roelf Laubscher, Martin Crous, Will Bernard and Sandra Kotzé. Costumes designed by Jennifer Craig.
L'Imbecile by Luigi Pirandello ()
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on
Sources
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Idiot_(pi%C3%A8ce_de_th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Barsacq
B. Poirot-Delpech. 1966. "L'Idiot, adapté de Dostoïevsky par André Barsacq", Le Monde 21 January, 1966[https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1966/01/21/l-idiot-adapte-de-dostoievsky-par-andre-barsacq_2703802_1819218.html
Teater SA, 1(3), 1969.
Die Idioot theatre programme, 1969.
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 Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
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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