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| − | Written in 1947, it is a play about Zaitsev, a worker doing repair work for a Moscow nursery, who goes to a rest home called Les Tournesols to meet a patient there, comrade Mioussov, so that he can sign a delivery receipt for 50 kilograms of white enamel paint. The comedy is based on a misunderstanding over obtaining the privilege of staying for twenty-four hours in this renowned health establishment, and the subterfuges Zaitsev goes to stay there. | + | Written in 1947, it is a play about Zaitsev, a worker doing repair work for a Moscow nursery, who goes to a rest home called Les Tournesols to meet a patient there, comrade Mioussov, so that he can sign a delivery receipt for 50 kilograms of white enamel paint. The comedy is based on a misunderstanding over obtaining the privilege of staying for twenty-four hours in this renowned health establishment, and the subterfuges Zaitsev goes to stay there. |
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Revision as of 17:06, 21 March 2023
Где вы, месье Миуссов ("Where are you, Monsieur Miussov") is a Russian comedy in two acts by Valentin Katayev (1897-1986) [1].
Contents
The original text
Written in 1947, it is a play about Zaitsev, a worker doing repair work for a Moscow nursery, who goes to a rest home called Les Tournesols to meet a patient there, comrade Mioussov, so that he can sign a delivery receipt for 50 kilograms of white enamel paint. The comedy is based on a misunderstanding over obtaining the privilege of staying for twenty-four hours in this renowned health establishment, and the subterfuges Zaitsev goes to stay there.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into French as Je veux voir Mioussov in 1965, and filmed as a TV movie of the same name in 1980.[2]
Translated into English as I Want to See Mioussov
Translated into Afrikaans s Waar is Kameraad Mioussoff? by Mariechen Naude, and adapted for radio by Driaan Engelbrecht in 1991.
Performance history in South Africa
1991: Broadcast in Afrikaans as Waar is Kameraad Mioussoff? by the SABC on the programme Radioteater on 25 February and repeated on 3 March. The recording directed by Joey de Koker.
Sources
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492651/
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Je_veux_voir_Mioussov.html?id=2WhvwQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
A typed copy of the SABC's Afrikaans text for Waar is Kameraad Mioussoff? found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.
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