Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty is a well known fairy tale, based on various folk tales from the 14th century, and written up by various authors over the ages.
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The original texts
The best known textual versions are perhaps La Belle au bois dormant ("The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood") by Charles Perrault and Dornröschen ("Little Briar Rose") by the Brothers Grimm. The story has been staged in a variety of ways over the years, very often as a pantomime, operetta, ballet, or musical, on stage, ice, and film. The classical stage example is of course Tchaikovsky's 1890 ballet The Sleeping Beauty[1], while the quintessential film version is inevitably the 1954 Walt Disney animated film[2].
Sleeping Beauty in South Africa
Besides the various international films and filmic adaptations seen in the country, and performances of the classic ballet, a large number of local stage versions of the tale have been created and performed in the country.
South African texts and adaptations
Sleeping Beauty by Darryl Nel.
This is an operetta, written for use by primary school children.
Sleeping Beauty by Janice Honeyman
A pantomime.
Doringrosie van Roosfontein by Liz Meiring
South African productions
2000: Performed as a musical by Kempton Arts and Theatrical Society.
2003: Performed as a musical by Kempton Arts and Theatrical Society
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty
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