Les Nonnes
Les Nonnes (French: "The Nuns") is a sinister 1969 comedy by Cuban playwright and novelist Eduardo Manet (1930- ) [1], who writes in French and lives in Paris. The play is set in Haiti at the time of the first Negro revolt of 1804.
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The original text
Translations and adaptations
The play has been translated into more than twenty languages.
Translated into English as The Nuns by Robert Baldick (1927-1972) [2] in 1970.
Translated from the English into Afrikaans as Die Nonne, by Mees Xteen in 1973.
Performance history in South Africa
1973: Die Nonne, the Xteen Afrikaans translation was staged in the Hofmeyr Theatre, directed by Mees Xteen.
Sources
Amazon [3]
Nico Malan Theatre pamphlet, February 1973.
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