La Musica
La Musica is a play by French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) [1].
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
A film with the same title was directed by Duras in 1967.
The play was translated into Afrikaans and adapted as a television script by Stephan Bouwer in 1972 and initially performed as an experimental piece for an SABC course in TV directing. This version featured Wilna Snyman, Nic de Jager and Elsa Fouché.
In 1976 the Afrikaans script was reworked and turned into a formal TV production, directed by Stephan Bouwer with Wilna Snyman, Marius Weyers, Miems de Bruyn, Jana Cilliers and Errol Ross. It was recorded on 1 and 2 March, 1976, and broadcast for the first time on 23 August, 1976.
The final TV script, edited by Renske Koen, was published by Human and Rousseau in 1978.
Performance history in South Africa
1968: Presented in English by the University of Cape Town's University Dramatic Society at the Little Theatre in May, directed by Gay Morris.
Sources
Inskip, 1972. p.153.
Marguerite Duras and Stephan Bouwer. La Musica (TV text),
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