Andorra

Andorra is a 1961 play written by the Swiss dramatist Max Frisch, dealing with some of the most gruesome inhumanities of the Second World War and the progressive dilution of responsibility in modern society.

Translations and adaptations

An English translation by Michael Bullock was published in Three Plays by Max Frisch, Methuen, 1962.

Performance history in South Africa

Directed by Fred Engelen at the Little Theatre in 195*. ** A professional production of it was also done by PACOFS in 1964, directed by Cobus Rossouw, starring himself and Lucille Gillwald in the Civic Theatre, Bloemfontein.

Translated into Afrikaans by Ants Kirsipuu and Wilma Stockenström. This translation of the play was presented by PACT in 1973 in the Breytenbach Theatre and the Alexander Theatre. The director was Truida Louw and the cast included Frantz Dobrowsky, Louis van Niekerk, Annette Engelbrecht, Tine Balder, Wilna Snyman, Carel Trichardt, Jan Engelen, and others.

Performed in Afrikaans by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in the H.B. Thom Theatre in April 1979, directed by Johann van Heerden, starring Dawid Minnaar, Jannie Gagiano, David Muller, Noël Roos and others.

Sources

UTS theatre pamphlet

PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988

PACT Newsletter, January 1973

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra_(play)

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