The Strong Are Lonely
The Strong Are Lonely (original title in German Das heilige Experiment (1942-3)) is a play by Austrian playwright Fritz Hochwaelder [1] (1911-1986), who wrote social and political dramas, using historical themes in his plays. The Strong Are Lonely drew on the violent dismantling of a utopian Jesuit settlement by the Spaniards in Paraguay in the 1760s.
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
The play may have been translated into English by Basil Warner,
Performance history in South Africa
1957: Presented by the Johannesburg Repertory Players , directed by Cecil Williams, with sets designed by Anthony Farmer and Charles Stodel in the cast, at the Library Theatre, Johannesburg, in June.
Sources
Theatre programme held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 13. 1167.
Press clipping of review by Oliver Walker held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 20. 1. 17.
Tucker, 1997. 107.
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