Herr Sleeman kommer
A Swedish one-act play (English: Mr. Sleeman Is Coming), by Hjalmar Bergman. The tale of an orphaned young woman, urged by her aunts to marry a rich old man.
Performance history in South Africa
Translations and adaptations
1953: January (1997) writes that a full-length English play entitled Mr Sleeman is Coming by Denis Rhodes Granger was produced for the Worcester Dramatic Society in 1953, directed by Granger himself. This is most probably the English translation of the bergstedt play.
1963: Translated in to Afrikaans as Meneer Sleeman Kom (most probably from the English) by Leonora Nel. This version first produced by PACT , as a double bill with Die Skuld van Oedipus, in 1963, in the Pretoria National Theatre. Directed Leonora Nel, with Kita Redelinghuijs, Leonora Nel, Vicki Vosloo/Phyllis Punt, Ernst Eloff and Jannie Gildenhuys.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Sleeman_Is_Coming
PACT Report 1963/64.
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