L’Aigle à Deux Têtes

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L’Aigle à Deux Têtes is play by Jean Cocteau.

Original text

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as The Eagle Has Two Heads by Ronald Duncan and first produced in English in new York’s Plymouth Theatre in 1947 with Tallulah Bankhead.

Performance history in South Africa

1949: First performed in English in South Africa by the Johannesburg Reps in the Library Theatre in 1949 starring Taubie Kushlick and Leon Gluckman, with Percy Tucker working backstage.

1952: Performed at the Labia Theatre, Cape Town, starring June Range as Queen Elizabeth of Austria.

Sources

Trek, 16(3):20. March 1952.


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