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Becket ou l'Honneur de Dieu ("Becket, or The Honour of God") is a French play by Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)[1] (It is most often simply referred to as Becket.)
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The original text
The play was first performed at the Théâtre Montparnasse Gaston Baty in Paris on 8 October 1959 and on Broadway in 1960. Published in Paris by Table Ronde in 1959.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English by Lucienne Hill as Becket, or The Honour of God, performed in London 1961, published in New York by New American Library in 1960. A new English translation by Frederic Raphael and Stephen Raphael was done in London in October 1991.
Translated into Afrikaans from the original French by Bartho Smit as Becket of Die Eer van God, and published in the collection Bartho Smit-vertalings No 4 by HAUM-Literêr, 1984.
Performance history in South Africa
1963: Performed in English as Becket, it was the first play produced by the newly established CAPAB in the Hofmeyr Theatre, Cape Town, opening on 6 November 1963. Directed by Laurie van der Merwe, with Pietro Nolte in the title role and Alec Bell as Henry II. Others in the large cast were Frank Wise, Michael Drin, Harold Lake, Robert del Kyrke, Alan Prior, Gordon Rennie and Fitz Morley. Among the women were Joyce Bradley, Val Donald and Susan Blake. Sets and costumes were by Eleanor Esmonde-White. Incidental music composed by Arnold van Wyk and recorded by the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra under his conductorship.
1970/71: Performed in a workshop version by PACOFS in the Presidency Theatre, Directed by Jannie Gildenhuys using only six actors to portray the thirty five characters. The cast consisted of William Egan, Errol Ross,
198*: Bartho Smit's Afrikaans version was performed by PACT in the State Theatre, featuring Marius Weyers and Frans Marx.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anouilh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becket
Becket theatre programme, CAPAB 1963.
Grütter, Wilhelm, CAPAB 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research.
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