Minna von Barnhelm

From ESAT
Revision as of 16:15, 17 June 2014 by Miriamt (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Minna von Barnhelm (1767), by Gotthold E. Lessing (1729-1781). A German play about ***.

Performance history in South Africa

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans by J.F.W. Grosskopf, it became a very popular play with the Afrikaans actors and audiences from its first production by Paul de Groot/ André Huguenet in 19**.

Produced under the tiltle Altyd My Liefste ["Always my Love"] at the Little Theatre in Cape Town by NTO in its opening season (performing in tandem with Dear Brutus) in January 1948. Directed by Truida Pohl, it starred André Huguenet, Siegfried Mynhardt, Gert van den Bergh and Georgie Linder, Enone van den Bergh. Lighting by Harry Ligoff. The NTO production had 134 performances on its tour through the country, closing in Johannesburg in July 1948.


Sources

Inskip, 1977. p

Return to

Return to M in Plays II Foreign Plays

Return to South_African_Theatre/Plays

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page