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| − | Translated into [[Afrikaans]] by [[Nerina Ferreira]]. | + | Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Don Juan]]'' by [[Nerina Ferreira]]. |
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[[Nico Malan Theatre]] Centre pamphlet. | [[Nico Malan Theatre]] Centre pamphlet. | ||
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Don Juan is the name of a fictional character about whom many literary and other works have been created.
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The character
The character Don Juan was created by Spanish playwright, Tirso de Molina[1], in his 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra ("The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest"), and the name of the character has since become common metaphor for a "womanizer".
There have been numerous works written and produced about the character and tapping into the notion of the "Don Juan" in society. (See for example Oscar Mandel's 1986 book The Theatre of Don Juan: A Collection of Plays and Views, 1630-1963, published by the University of Nebraska Press[2])
Below are a number of plays or adaptations bearing the title Don Juan.
Plays and films containing the name Don Juan, or using the character
Plays
George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell Don Juan or 'The Nightmare of Venus', Don Juan onder die Boere, Don Gxubane Onner die Boere,
Films
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Don_Juan
Plays bearing the title Don Juan
Don Juan by Lord Byron
This was a satiric poem[3] by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women.
Translations and adaptations
Adapted for the stage by Roberta Durrant
Performances in South Africa
1980: Performed as a play at the Market Theatre Upstairs in June, directed by Roberta Durrant, with Vanessa Cooke, Nigel Daly, David Eppel, Janice Honeyman and Terry Norton. Lighting designs were by John White-Spunner, choreography by Dinah Eppel, and stage management by Margaret Ramsay.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Juan_(Byron)
Pat Schwartz, 1988: p. 235
Don Juan by Max Frisch
Don Juan oder Die Liebe zur Geometrie is a german play in First published in 1953.
Translations and adaptations
Translated as Don Juan, or The Love of Geometry by James L. Rosenberg in 1964, published in Three Plays by Max Frisch
Translated into English as by Michael Bullock and published in 1969 by Methuen in Four Plays by Max Frisch, .
Translated into Afrikaans as Don Juan by Nerina Ferreira.
Performances in South Africa
1975: Performed in Afrikaans by CAPAB Afrikaans Drama, directed by Mavis Taylor with starring Jana Cilliers in the Nico Malan Theatre in January.
Sources
John Gassner and Edward Quinn. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama 2002[4] P. 183.
Nico Malan Theatre Centre pamphlet.
Photograph by Paul Alberts, NELM.
Films bearing the title Don Juan
Don Juan (1926)
This is a 1926 film by Alan Crosland[5] =
First shown in South Africa in 192*, inter alia at the Orpheum Theatre, Johannesburg.
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