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''[[Picnic]]'' is a short play by Fernando Arrabal (1932-)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Arrabal] . 
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Perhaps better known as ''[[Picnic en el Campo de Batalla]]'' or ''[[Picnic on the Battlefield]]''. 
 
 
 
== The original text ==
 
 
 
Originally called ''[[The Soldiers]]'', it was later named ''[[Pic-Nic]]'' or  ''[[Picnic]]'' in Spanish, and was written in 1950-51.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
Translated into French as ''[[Pique-nique en Campagne]]''.
 
 
Translated as into English as ''[[Picnic on the Battlefield]]'' from the French by Barbara Wright, and published by Calder & Boyars, 1967.
 
 
 
Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Piekniek te Velde]]'' and as ''[[Piekniek op die Slagveld]]'' by [[Fred le Roux]].
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
First produced in South Africa by **
 
 
 
1974: Performed in Afrikaans as ''[[Piekniek te Velde]]'' in  a lunch-hour presentation at [[Space Theatre|The Space]] in 1974, directed by [[Dawie Malan]] with [[Marthinus Basson]], [[Neels Bezuidenhout]], [[Stephen Gurney]], [[Blaise Koch]], [[Margot Luyt]] and [[Fitz Morley]].
 
 
 
1974: Performed in Afrikaans as ''[[Piekniek op die Slagveld]]'' by [[PACOFS]], directed by [[Annelize van der Ryst]], starring [[Christopher Consani]], [[Roelf Laubscher]], [[Johan Esterhuizen]] and [[Trudi du Plessis]].
 
 
 
1976: Performed in English as ''[[Picnic on the Battlefield]]'' in a lunch-hour presentation at [[Space Theatre|The Space]] (Cape Town), directed by [[Bill Flynn]] with [[Charles Comyn]], [[Bill Curry]], [[Joe Gibbon]], [[Dorrian McLaren]], [[John Nankin]] and [[Robin Smith]].
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
 
 
PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988.
 
 
 
[[ESAT Bibliography Ar-Az|Astbury]] 1979.
 
 
 
 
 
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