Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a famous character from the 1719 book by Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731)[1].
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The novel
The book was published on 25 April 1719 with the (very) full title of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates, but is generally known by the name of the hero.
A number of plays and other adaptations - usually with the name by this name Robinson Crusoe and broadly based on the book - have been performed in South Africa.
See the entries on the following:
Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday (Sheridan)
Robinson Crusoe. A Christmas Pantomime (John Moss)
1939-1940: Produced by African Consolidated Theatres , with Moira Lister as "Fairy Coraline".
Robinson Crusoe: Christmas pantomime written by John Moss
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1983/84: A version by John Moss presented by PACT, directed by John Moss at the State Theatre, Pretoria. Designer Hugh Durrant, musical director Howard Morgan, choreographer Rosemary Brandt, lighting Tim Heale, costume co-ordinator Bronwen Lovegrove. The cast included Paul Andrews, Johan Engelbrecht, Jocelyn Broderick, James Borthwick, Frantz Dobrowsky, Peter Se-Puma, John Lesley, David Crichton, Schalk Schoombie, Karin Jerg and others.
Sources
Scrapbook held by NELM: [Collection: LISTER, Moira]: 2007. 20. 6. 1.
AFRICAN CONSOLIDATED THEATRES LTD dramatic contract dated 8 December 1939 for the Robinson Crusoe pantomime, held by NELM.
Robinson Crusoe theatre programme, PACT, 1983/84.
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