The Love of a Nightingale

The Love of the Nightingale is a play by New York-born British playwright, screenplay writer, and translator Timberlake Wertenbaker, commissioned for the Royal Shakespeare Company and first performed in 1989 at The Other Place, Straford. It is an adaptation of the Ancient Greek legend of the rape of Philomela by her brother-in-law Tereus, and the gruesome revenge undertaken by Philomela and her sister Procne. The play takes a feminist look at the ancient tale. Published in Plays one by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Faber and Faber, 1996.

Translated into Afrikaans by Arnold Blumer as Die Nagtegaal se Liefde. Directed by Janice Honeyman in 2002 for the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department featuring students of the Department.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_of_the_Nightingale

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