The Light that Failed
The Light that Failed is the name of two plays, both based on Kipling's 1891 novel.
a play by C. Thorpe ()[]
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
George Fleming did a stage adaptation of the novel that was first staged in the West End from February to April 1903, before it appeared on Broadway in November.
The novel was also filmed three times, as a silent film by Pathé (1916) and by Famous Players-Lasky (1923), and as a sound film by Paramount in 1939, starring Ronald Colman and Walter Huston.
Performance history in South Africa
1904: Performed as part of a repertoire of three plays by Mrs and Mr Robert Brough and their company, under the Wheeler Company management. They appeared in the Good Hope Theatre, Cape Town, from 26 February onwards. According to D.C. Boonzaier (1923) the play was as "as dull as the book from which it was taken".
Sources
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.419
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