La vita che ti diedi

La Vita Che Ti Diedi (The Life I Gave You) is a 1923 play by Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello [1].

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans by Con de Villiers as Die Lewe wat ek jou Gegee het.

1964: Die Lewe wat ek jou Gegee het, directed by Victor Melleney for PACT, performed in the National Theatre, Pretoria, Library Theatre, Johannesburg and taken on tour in Transvaal. Décor by Raimond Schoop, costumes by Margaret Louttit. The cast included Francois Swart, Wena Naudé, Leonora Nel, James Norval, Anna Neethling-Pohl and others.

1964: Die Lewe wat ek jou Gegee het was directed by Fred Engelen, assisted by Annatjie Vorster, for the Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in the Botha Hall in Stellenbosch, in September, during the Stellenbosch Arts Festival. Members of the cast were Anna Neethling-Pohl (Donn'Anna), Tine Balder (Lucia), Ben Verwey (Don Giorgio), Marie van Heerden (Donna Fiorina), Antoinette Terblanche (Lida), Franz Marx (Flavio), Madelein Viljoen (Francesca), Gertie Smith-Visser (Elisabetta), Willem de la Querra (Giovanni), Woutrine Theron et al. Décor by Fred Engelen and Willem de la Querra, Costumes by Elize Ziervogel. After the Stellenbosch run, the production was staged in the Hofmeyr Theatre in Cape Town.

PACT report 1963/64.

PACT theatre programme, 1964.

UTS theatre programme, 1964.

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