The Cradle Song

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The Cradle Song is an English translation of Canción de cuna, a Spanish play by Gregorio Martínez Sierra (1881-1947).


The original text

Sierra was a Spanish writer, poet, dramatist and theatre director, a key figure in the revival of the Spanish theatrical avant-garde in the early twentieth century. Canción de cuna, his masterpiece, was written and first performed in 1911, and was adapted into a film in 1933.


Translations

Productions in South Africa

1943: Produced in the Little Theatre in Cape Town by Leontine Sagan for the UCT Speech-Training Department, featuring Elizabeth Hutton, Rosalie van der Gucht, Archie Foster, Graham Young, Nada Waterman, Maragaret Whyte.

Sources

Trek 7(22):16; 7(24):16, 1943.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorio_Mart%C3%ADnez_Sierra


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