Les Avariés

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Les Avariés ("The damaged") is a French play in three acts by Eugène Brieux (1858–1932)[1].

The original text

A controversial drama about the social consequences of syphilis, it was banned by the censor, due to its medical details of syphilis, and was therefore first read privately by the author at the Théâtre Antoine in 1901. The ban was later lifted. Published in Paris by P-V Stock in 1902.

Performed in Brussels in 1910.

Translations and adaptations

Late

Translated into English as Damaged Goods by ** it was first produced in England to acclaim in 190* and at the Fulton Theatre, New York on March 14, 1913.

The play was novelized in English("with the approval of the author") by Upton Sinclair and published by C. Winston, Philadelphia, as Damaged Goods: The great play "Les avariés" of Brieux (copyright 1913).


Filmed four times as Damaged Goods: the first directed by Tom Ricketts (1914), followed by Alexander Butler (1919), Edgar G. Ulmer (1933) and Phil Goldstone (1937).

Performance History in South Africa

1917 - First produced as Damaged Goods at the Standard Theatre, Johannesburg, by Stephen Black, opening on 9 October 1917. The cast included Henry Miles, Edward Vincent, Dick Cruikshanks, Olga Vallier, Alma Vaughan, Violette Ford and Betty Kendal.


Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Brieux

Facsimile version of the original French text, The Internet Archive[2]

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