A Hundred Years Old
A Hundred Years Old by Serafin Quintero (1871-1938) and Joaquin Quintero (1873-1944), known as Los hermanos Quinteros (the Quintero brothers). The brothers, born near Seville, always worked together and from 1897 produced about 200 comedies, principally dealing with local life in Andalusia. Among them are Papá Juan: centenario (1909). Published in an English translation in Four Plays (1927). (Source: http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007690.html).
Performed in Afrikaans by the NTO in 1956 under the title Honderd Jaar Oud. (Helikon, 6(24):86).
Translated into Afrikaans as Die Honderdste Verjaarsdag by Ans Kirsipuu (Wilma Stockenström). Full-length. Cast: mixed.
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