Report to an Academy
Report to an Academy by Franz Kafka?**. A story about a chimpanzee raised as a human, treporting his experiences and longings to the Academy of Sciences.
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Performance history in South Africa
English versions
Translated into English and adapted as a one-man show for the stage and directed for South Africa by Mario Schiess with Marius Weyers in 1980. The production became a massive hit, financially and economically and critically, being performed around the country and abroad for the following number of years. He won a number of awards for the role, including the Fleur du Cap Award in 1980.
In 2003*? Abduragman Adams did another version of the Schiess text at the Grahamstown Festival.
Versions in other South African languages
An Afrikaans translation by Arnold Blumer, called Na-aap (literally "after-ape" in Afrikaans, it means "to imitate"), was performed in 2013. A Clover Aardklop production, directed by Jaco Bouwer, with De Klerk Oelofse.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Report_to_an_Academy
Aardklop Programme 2013
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