Herr Sleeman kommer
A Swedish one-act play (English: Mr. Sleeman Is Coming), by Hjalmar Bergman. The tale of an orphaned young woman, urged by her aunts to marry a rich old man.
Performance history in South Africa
Translations and adaptations
1953: January (1997) writes that a full-length English play entitled Mr Sleeman is coming by Denis Rhodes Granger was produced for the Worcester Dramatic Society in 1953, directed by Granger himself. This is most probably a mistake and the play used was the English translation of the Bergman one-act play.
1963: Translated in to Afrikaans as Meneer Sleeman Kom (most probably from the English) by Leonora Nel. This version first produced by PACT , as a double bill with Die Skuld van Oedipus, in 1963, in the Pretoria National Theatre. Directed Leonora Nel, with Kita Redelinghuijs, Leonora Nel, Vicki Vosloo/Phyllis Punt, Ernst Eloff and Jannie Gildenhuys.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Sleeman_Is_Coming
PACT Report 1963/64.
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