Dimetos
by Athol Fugard. A play about the relationship between a civil engineer and his family??**. Commissioned for the Edinburgh Festival. .
Contents
The original text
First published in Dimetos, and, Two early plays by Athol Fugard. Oxford University Press, 1977.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
The first production directed and designed by Fugard, with Yvonne Bryceland (Sophia), Vanessa Cooke (Lydia), Wilson Dunster (Danilo) and Carel Trichardt (Dimetos). Lighting and stage management by Dimitri Nicolas-Fanourakis. The production first ran at The Space (Cape Town) during final rehearsals, while Fugard still changed, wrote and re-wrote much of it. The official opening was at the Edinburgh Festival in 197*, after which it rerurned to play at **
Presented at the People's Space by Dieter Reible, opening 21 December 1981, starring Marius Weyers and Trix Pienaar.
Market Theatre production of Dimetos - 1982
Sources
1789 programme, 1981.
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