Huit Femmes
Huit Femmes ("Eight Women") is a 1958 dark comedy drama by French dramatist Robert Thomas. Revolving around an eccentric family of women and their employees in the 1950s, the plot follows eight women as they gather to celebrate Christmas in an isolated, snowbound cottage only to find Marcel, the family patriarch, dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret. (Wikipedia [1])
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The original text
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English and Afrikaans by Jocelyn de Bruyn: Eight Women and Agt Vroue. Full-length play. Cast: mixed. **
Performance history in South Africa
Agt Vroue presented by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in 1963, directed by Jo Gevers. The cast were Carmen Haddad, Elise Ziervogel, Christine Basson, Antoinette Terblanche, Esther van Ryswyk, Annatjie Vorster, Marie Pentz and Gertie Smith-Visser. Voice of the radio announcer, Franz Marx.
Agt Vroue directed by Leonora Nel for PACT, 1965.
Sources
UTS theatre pamphlet
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