Madman
An adaptation of the one-man play Diary of a Madman based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol.
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The original text
Diary of a Madman (1835) is the English translation of a farcical short story in Russian, by Nikolai Gogol [1].
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
First staged as part of a double bill (with The Yellow Wallpaper) in September 1999 in the main building of the Valkenberg mental hospital in Cape Town, with Jeroen Kranenburg, directed by Geoffrey Hyland.
Sources
The Sunday Indepepndent, 12 September 1999.
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