La Dama Duende

La Dama Duende ("The elf lady") A Spanish comedy by Calderon (Pedro Calderón de la Barca) (1600-1681).

The original text

Performed and published in 1629.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as The Phantom Lady by Edwin Honig. Published in Four plays by Calderon de la Barca. Hill and Wang (New York), 1961.

Another translation into English is entitled The Fairy Lady.

Translated into Afrikaans from the Spanish by Jocelyn de Bruyn, as Kom Spook By My ("Come haunt me").

Performance history in South Africa

Kom Spook By My directed by Peter Kleinschmidt for CAPAB, opening in the Hofmeyr Theatre on 30 March 1968. Cast: Percy Sieff, Johan Malherbe, Lerina C. Erasmus, Christine Basson, Pieter Fourie, Glynn Day, Woutrine Theron, Dawid van der Walt. Decor and costumes by Annette Schaad. Stage director Pieter de Swardt.

This production toured the Western and Northern Cape during April 1968 and played at the H.B. Thom Theatre from 2 to 4 May 1968 before its run at the Opera House in Port Elizabeth, the Vallei-Kerksaal in Worcester and the Malmesbury Town Hall later in May.

Kom Spook By My directed by Jannie Gildenhuys for PACOFS, opening 5 March 1969 in the Bloemfonteinse Stadskouburg. Décor and costumes by Limpie Basson. The cast: Bennie Janeke, Johan Malherbe, Neels Coetzee, Maryann Johnston, Carmen Haddad, Ernst Eloff, Johan Botha, Helena Myburgh.