The Respectable Prostitute

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The Respectful Prostitute (French: La Putain respectueuse) is a French play by Jean-Paul Sartre, written in 1946, which observes a woman, a prostitute, caught up in a racially tense period of American history.

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1957: Presented by the Regent Players in a double bill with Vicious Circle at the Library Theatre in Johannesburg directed by Cecil Williams.

Sources

Wikipedia [1].

Tucker, 1997. 11-2.

NELM: [Collection: TUCKER, Percy]: 2001. 20. 1. 1. 559.

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