My Three Angels
My Three Angels [1] is a comedy play by Samuel and Bella Spewack [2]. A delightful and entertaining comedy set on an island in French Guiana, it tells how three convicts, brought out to repair a roof, become the good angels of a badly harassed household. First produced in English on Broadway in 1953.
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The original text
Based on a popular French play by Albert Husson called La Cuisine des Anges (“Cooking with Angels”).
Translations and adaptations
it was made into a very successful 1955 movie called We’re no Angels [3], starring Joan Bennett, Humphrey Bogart, Basil Rathbone, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov.
Translated into Afrikaans as Drie Engeltjies op Duiwelseiland by Mariechen Naudé.
Performance history in South Africa
1955: Produced by the Johannesburg Reps, directed by Anthony Farmer, and starring John Boulter.
196*: PACOFS did a production featuring Deon Joubert, Schalk Jacobsz?* and Johan Botha?*. Directed by ***.
1973: The Naudé translation Drie Engeltjies op Duiwelseiland was staged by (***) in Pretoria, directed by Danie Burger, featuring Enone van den Bergh (Emilie), Jelrich Koeleman (Felix), Linda Botha (Die Meisie), Esther Nasser (Madame Parole), Zaza Vorster (Marie-Louise), Deric Botha (Alfred), Sidney Rogers (Jules), Pieter Brand (Joseph), Lucas Maree (Gaston), David van Rensburg (Paul) and Etienne Ernst (Espoir).
1974: Johan Botha directed it for SWAPAC, the first play to be produced by that arts council entirely on its own.
Sources
(Pretoria) theatre programme, 1973.
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