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''Les Nonnes : Parabole en 2 actes''. Paris, Théâtre Poche-Montparnasse (1969)is a sinister comedy by Cuban playwright and novelist Eduardo Manet (1930- ) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Manet], who writes in French and lives in Paris. The play is set in Haiti at the time of the first Negro revolt of 1804.
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'''''Les Nonnes''''' (French: "''The Nuns''") is a sinister 1969 comedy by Cuban playwright and novelist Eduardo Manet (1930- ) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Manet], who writes in French and lives in Paris. The play is set in Haiti at the time of the first Negro revolt of 1804.
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==

Revision as of 06:41, 14 September 2015

Les Nonnes (French: "The Nuns") is a sinister 1969 comedy by Cuban playwright and novelist Eduardo Manet (1930- ) [1], who writes in French and lives in Paris. The play is set in Haiti at the time of the first Negro revolt of 1804.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

The play has been translated into over 20 languages, also into Afrikaans by Mees Xteen as Die Nonne, performed in the Hofmeyr Theatre in February 1973, directed by Xteen.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Amazon [2]

Nico Malan Theatre pamphlet, February 1973.

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