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* ''[[Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]'', an adaptation by J. Comyns-Carr (1910). | * ''[[Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]'', an adaptation by J. Comyns-Carr (1910). | ||
| − | * Translated into Afrikaans as [[Verlore Siel]] ("Lost Soul") and produced by [[James Norval]] in 1933. | + | * Translated into Afrikaans as ''[[Verlore Siel]]'' ("Lost Soul") and produced by [[James Norval]] in 1933. |
==Performance history in South Africa== | ==Performance history in South Africa== | ||
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the title of the stage play based on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.
Translations and adaptations
There have been numerous stage, screen and radio adaptations of the novella, such as:
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a play in four acts by Thomas Russell Sullivan (1887).
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a play in four acts by John McKinney in collaboration with the actor Daniel E. Bandmann (also 1887).
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, an adaptation by J. Comyns-Carr (1910).
- Translated into Afrikaans as Verlore Siel ("Lost Soul") and produced by James Norval in 1933.
Performance history in South Africa
1913: The version by Comyns-Carr was presented by H.B. Irving and his London Company at His Majesty's Theatre, Johannesburg in January.
1933: Verlore Siel ("Lost Soul") produced by James Norval.
2003: Jeroen Kranenburg did a one-man show at the Olympia, Kalkbaai, in April.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Strange_Case_of_Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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