Moumou
Moumou is a 1944 farce for adult audiences by French playwright Jean de Létraz (1897-1954) [1].
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as Pyjama Tops by Mawby Green and Ed Feilbert in the 1950s.
Translated into Afrikaans as Jôli-Jôli by Mikro.
Performance history in South Africa
>>>>>>>>>>Pyjama Tops, by Jean de Letraz. Directed by Alexander Doré for Toerien-Firth Company at the Baxter Theatre, 1980. The cast: Leonne Carnot, Len Sparrow-Hawk, Ivor Berold, Tobie Cronjé, Volenté Bertotti, Peter J. Elliot, Sandy Wahba, Charmaine Jay, Tinah Lebea, Martina Stöckl. Directed by Peter J. Elliot in 1981 at the Baxter Theatre, again for Toerien-Firth Company, the cast: Leonne Carnot, Len Sparrow-Hawk, Caroline Fox, Michael Findlay, Jimmy Thompson, Kryska Witkowska, Peter J. Elliot, Sandy Wahba, Tinah Lebea, Bernadine Bezuidenhout, Geraldine Fitzgerald. (Source: Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.
1977: PACT staged the Mikro Afrikaans translation Jôli-Jôli in the Breytenbach Theatre in Pretoria and the Alexander Theatre in Johannesburg, directed by Louis van Niekerk, featuring Harriet Pienaar (Claudine), David van der Merwe (Inspekteur Legrand), Louise Mollett-Prinsloo (Yvonne Chauvinet), Louis van Niekerk (Georges Chauvinet), Gerben Kamper (Leonard Jôli-Jôli), Elise Hibbert (Babette Latouche), and John Harley (Jacques). Decor by Jan Hamers and costumes by Anthoinette Lombard.
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