Picnic on the Battlefield

Picnic on the Battlefield (Pique-nique en campagne) by Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932). translated from the French by Barbara Wright' published by Calder & Boyars, 1967.

First produced in South Africa by ** In 197* done as a lunch-hour presentation at The Space (Cape Town), directed by Bill Flynn with Charles Comyn, Bill Curry, Joe Gibbon, Dorrian Mclaren, John Nankin and Robin Smith.

Translated into Afrikaans by ***, it was presented as a lunch-hour presentation at The Space in 1974, directed by Dawie Malan with Marthinus Basson, Neels Bezuidenhout, Stephen Gurney, Blaise Koch, Margot Luyt and Fitz Morley. *

Translated into Afrikaans as Piekniek te Velde and as Piekniek op die Slagveld. The latter translation was presented by PACOFS in 1974, directed by Annelize van der Ryst, starring Christopher Consani, Roelf Laubscher, Johan Esterhuizen and Trudi du Plessis.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Arrabal

PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988

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