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L'intruse (1890), ("The Intruder") is a one-act play by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949).
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The original text
This is the second play Maeterlinck wrote, and is a symbolist work which deals with man's conflict with preternatural forces, against which he is powerless. First performed at Paul Fort's Theatre d'Art in Paris on May 20, 1891, as part of a benefit for Paul Gauguin and Paul Verlaine. First published in a Belgian periodical in 1890 and then with Les Aveugles in the collection entitled Les Aveugles by P. Lacomblez in Bruxelles in 1892 .
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as The Intruder Published March 1911 by Dodd, Mead and Company in a collection containing The Intruder, The Blind, The Seven Princesses, and The Death of Tintagiles.
Translated into Afrikaans as Die Indringer by by W.E.G. Louw and N.P. van Wyk Louw.
South African performances
1935: Performed in Afrikaans as Die Indringer at the Little Theatre Cape Town in translation by members of the Kaapstadse Afrikaanse Toneelvereniging in 1935 for the University of Cape Town branch of the Afrikaanse Nasionale Studentebond. Directed by Marguerite I. Murray, with W.E.G. Louw as stage manager.
1997: Produced in English under the title The Intruder, at the National Arts Festival, directed by Lindsay Reardon.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intruder_(play)
National Arts Festival programme, 1997.
World Drama, by Allardyce Nicoll.
https://archive.org/details/lesaveugleslintr00maetuoft
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/63611142/intruder-by-maurice-maeterlinck
Rinie Stead, 1985b
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