Dödsdansen
Dödsdansen by Swedish playwright August Strindberg (1849-1912),
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Afrikaans translation by Bartho Smit, titled Dodedans. Full-length. Cast: mixed. Published in Bartho Smit – Vertalings 3 by HAUM Literêr, 1984.
Performance history in South Africa
A production by the André Huguenet Teatergroep entitled Dodedans is listed in the Geleende Vere theatre programme in 1944. The translator is not named but it is clearly an earlier translation than the one done by Bartho Smit.
The Afrikaans version (Dodedans as translated by Smit) was directed by Fred Engelen for PACT shortly before his death in 1967 starring Louis van Niekerk as Kurt, Patrick Mynhardt as Edgar and Kita Redlinghuys as his wife. The play was presented in a triple bill with Die Spel van Liefde en Toeval by Pierre Chamblain de Marivaux and Die Burgemeester.
Sources
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, New Series 6(1), 1968.
Siener in die Suburbs theatre programme containg list of actors and their roles for TRUK 1965-1971.
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