The Oresteia

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The Oresteia by Aeschylus. ***


The original text

Translations and adaptations

Translations

Afrikaans:

Trnslated by was translated as by Merwe Scholtz in 1981


Adaptations

Molora (2007)

===Die Oresteia-Trilogie (1981)

Translated by by Merwe Scholtz,


Performance history in South Africa

1952: Directed in English by Rosalie van der Gucht at the Little Theatre, Cape Town, in 1952, the year it celebrated its 21st birthday.

1981: Directed in Afrikaans as Die Oresteia-Trilogie by Dieter Reible, for CAPAB. The cast included Wilna Snyman, Johan Malherbe, Marthinus Basson, Grethe Fox, Marga van Rooy, Neels Coetzee, David van der Merwe, Paul Lückhoff, Mitzi Booysen, Selma van der Vyver, Christo Potgieter, Brümilda van Rensburg, Marikie Basson, Heléne Coetzee, Elise Hibbert, Marko van der Colff. Decor and costumes by Raimond Schoop, lighting by Leon Benzakein.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

Inskip, 1977. p 43.

Die Orestiea-Trilogie theatre programme, 1981.

http://www.yfarber.com/molora/

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