Villa à Vendre

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Villa à Vendre is a play by French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the Boulevard theatre, Alexandre-Pierre Georges (Sacha) Guitry (21 February 1885 - 24 July 1957) [1] [2]

Translations and adaptations

Translated into [Afrikaans]], entitled Huis te Koop. The text is available at the University of Stellenbosch Library, Manuscripts Section, reference MS 31/16/7.

Translated into English, entitled Villa for Sale.

Performance histpry in Souh Africa

1935: Performed at the Little Theatre in Cape Town in translation by members of the Kaapstadse Afrikaanse Toneelvereniging in 1935 for the University of Cape Town branch of the Afrikaanse Nasionale Studentebond. Directed by Marguerite I. Murray, with W.E.G. Louw as stage manager.

1935: Huis te Koop was presented by the University of Cape Town’s Faculty of Education and Department of Nederlands and Afrikaans at the Little Theatre in November 1935. Director not named. This is probably the sam production as the above.

1967: It was performed as a lunch-time show in the Hofmeyr Theatre in 1967. It was directed by Paul Malherbe.

Sources

Inskip, 1972. p.120. (UCT Faculty of Education production).

Grütter, Wilhelm, CAPAB 25 Years, 1987. Unpublished research. p 66.

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