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
1963:
1980: Pyjama Tops, the English translation, staged by the Toerien-Firth Company at the Baxter Theatre, directed by Alexander Doré, with Leonne Carnot, Len Sparrow-Hawk, Ivor Berold, Tobie Cronjé, Volenté Bertotti, Peter J. Elliot, Sandy Wahba, Charmaine Jay, Tinah Lebea and Martina Stöckl.
1981: Another production of Pyjama Tops, staged by the Toerien-Firth Company at the Baxter Theatre, this time directed by Peter J. Elliot, with Leonne Carnot, Len Sparrow-Hawk, Caroline Fox, Michael Findlay, Jimmy Thompson, Kryska Witkowska, Peter J. Elliot, Sandy Wahba, Tinah Lebea, Bernadine Bezuidenhout and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
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.
Sources
The Brian Brooke Company theatre programme (undated).
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.
PACT theatre programme, 1977.
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