Noé
Noé is a play by French playwright André Obey (1892 – 1975)[1]
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as Noah (1935) by Arthur Wilmurt.
Translated into Afrikaans as Noag (1979) by Jannie Gildenhuys.
Adapted (?) as a full-length musical by Graham Weir and Megan Choritz, first performed at Artscape as part of the New Writer’s Programme of 2005.
Adapted as a full-length a cappella musical, called Noah of Cape Town, by Graham Weir.
Performed at the Baxter Theatre in 2009, directed by Jaci de Villiers.
South African Performances
1942: Produced in English by Rosalie van der Gucht for the UCT Speech-Training Department with Donald Inskip, Richard Buncher, Margaret Whyte, Lionel Bowman, Basil Warner, Philippe Sauzier, Cynthia Coller, Freda Kahn, Juliana Oosthuizen in the Little Theatre, late 1942.
1956: Produced in English by Leon Gluckman .
1979: Staged in Afrikaans by the Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in October in the H.B. Thom Theatre, directed by Jannie Gildenhuys, with Herman Pretorius (Noag), Christa Kotzé (Mev. Noag), Chris van Jaarsveld (Sem), Dawid Minnaar (Gam), Niel le Roux (Jafet), Elize Britz (Sella), Gaynor Calitz (Naomi), Elmari van Niekerk (Ada), Johann van Heerden ('n Man and Die Olifant and Die Bul), Ben Dehaeck (Die Beer), Riette Fritz (Die Leeu and Die Padda), Annette Marais (Die Apie), Lindi Roux (Die Koei and Die Skilpad), Ianette Rossouw (Die Volstruis and Die Donkie), Elmari van Niekerk (Die Meerkat), Christa Kotzé (Die Kangaroe), Anel Oberholzer (Die Wolf), Sandra Horn (Die Lam), Dawid Minnaar (Die Kraai), Debbie Henrick (Die Haas) and Libby Daniels (Die Tier). Costumes by Elaine Aucamp and lighting by Emile Aucamp.
Sources
UTS theatre programme, October 1979.
UTS theatre pamphlet
Trek 7(18):16; 7(19):16, 1943.
Cape Times, 16 July 2009.
, a play by French playwright André Obey (1892-1975), English text Noah by Arthur Wilmurt. Published by Heinemann, 1935.
Translated into Afrikaans by Jannie Gildenhuys titled Noag and performed by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in October 1979 in the H.B. Thom Theatre, directed by Gildenhuys, starring Herman Pretorius, Dawid Minnaar, Johann van Heerden, Ben Dehaeck and others.
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