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| + | Filmed a number of times, it has also seen a number of operatic versions, early ones such as French composer Albert Roussel's 1903 tone poem ''[[Résurrection]]'' and Italian composer Franco Alfano's ''[[Risurrezione]]'' (1904), followed by later versions include ''[[Vzkriesenie]]'' (1960) by Slovak composer Ján Cikker, and ''[[Resurrection]]'' by American composer Tod Machover. | ||
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 05:35, 23 March 2021
Resurrection can refer to two plays produced in South Africa
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy (1905)
The original text
Based on the novel Воскресеніе by Tolstoy (known in English translation as Resurrection or The Awakening)[1].
Translations and adaptations
Filmed a number of times, it has also seen a number of operatic versions, early ones such as French composer Albert Roussel's 1903 tone poem Résurrection and Italian composer Franco Alfano's Risurrezione (1904), followed by later versions include Vzkriesenie (1960) by Slovak composer Ján Cikker, and Resurrection by American composer Tod Machover.
Performance history in South Africa
1905: Performed by the William Haviland and his company in the Opera House, Cape Town, in June.
Sources
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: p.422
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Resurrection by Richard Rive (1966)
The original text
A one-act play, adapted by Richard Rive () from his short story of the same name, it deals with the ambiguities of the "coloured" designation - a theme which Rive will return to in Buckingham Palace, District Six.
The play was first performed in April 1966 by Experimental Theatre at the University of Columbia and published in Short African Plays (Ed: Cosmo Pieterse, 1968 ) by Heinemann and later again in Selected Writings (Johannesburg: Ad Donker, 1976).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Presented by the University of the Witwatersrand as part of a double bill with All's Well at the National Arts Festival Student Drama in 1985 starring Jacquiline Dommisse, Gilda Blacher, Niel Lessick. Directed by Graeme Messer, stage manager Mary Gill, lighting Paul Abrahams, company manager Morag Todd.
Sources
National Arts Festival programme, 1985.
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