Les Affaires sont les Affaires
Les Affaires sont les Affaires (1903), by French playwright Octave Mirbeau.
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Performance history in South Africa
Translations and adaptations
Zaken zijn Zaken ("Business is Business"). A popular Dutch version of Les Affaires sont les Affaires (1903), by Octave Mirbeau, a French satire about the big businessman who is a slave to his wealth. The first play which Paul de Groot produced and performed in South Africa (Cape Town, 1924). In 1928 the Paul de Groot Teatergeselskap produced a successful Afrikaans version of it under the title Besigheid is Besigheid (1928) and he repeated it in 1931 with a new company. (See Binge, 1969)
Sources
Nel, 1972 Go to ESAT Bibliography
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