The Two Executioners

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The Two Executioners (Les deux bourreaux in the original French) (1958), by Spanish playwright, novelist and filmmaker Fernando Arrabal (born 1932). One-act. Cast: mixed.

Performance history in South Africa

Translations and adaptations

Afrikaans translation from the French by Nerina Ferreira as Die Twee Laksmanne. Presented by CAPAB in a lunch-hour production in 1971 in the Hofmeyr Theatre with Price Coetzee, David Haynes, Pieter Geldenhuys, Mees Xteen, Nerina Ferreira and Paul Slabolepszy. Directed by Pieter Fourie (in his debut as director), decor by Pieter de Swardt.

Sources

Die Twee Laksmanne programme

Photograph - NELM Manuscripts - [Collection: FLETCHER, Jill]: 2005. 75. 19. 50).


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