La Promenade du dimanche
La Promenade du dimanche is a French play in two acts by Georges Michel.
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The original text
In his prefaace to the Michel text, Jean Paul Sartre says: "La Promenade du dimanche was written in the final days of the Algerian War, when considerable firecrackers were shaking the buildings of Paris. Georges Michel wanted to show us as we were then, with our fabricated ignorance, our indifference half-suffered, half-complicit, walking towards our doom, ears plugged, a blindfold over our eyes...
Published by Gallimard in 1967.
Translations and adaptations
Translated and adapted into English as The Sunday Walk, by Jean Benedette of Published in English by Methuen Playscripts, 1968.
Translated into Afrikaans as Sondagwandeling
Performance history in South Africa
1991: Performed in Afrikaans as Sondagwandeling in the H.B. Thom Theatre in November by the Stellenbosch University Drama Department. Directed by Adré Aucamp with a cast that included Erik de Waal, Jeanne van Schoor, Denver Vraagom, Judy-Ann Deacon and Juan Els.
Sources
David Bradby. 1991. Modern French Drama 1940-1990 Cambridge University Press[1]
Theatre pamphlet, 1991
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