Dialogues des Carmélites

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Dialogues des Carmélites (" Dialogues of the Carmelites") is a play by George Bernanos (1888-1948)[].

The original text

The play is based on a film scenario which Bernanos had made of a story by Gertrude von Le Fort, portraying the sufferings and ultimate death on the guillotine of 16 Carmelite nuns during the French Revolution.

Written in 1947, it was produced

Dialogues des Carmélites (1947).

Translations and adaptations

The text of the play was translated into English as The Chosen of God by Donald Inskip in 1955

The play forms the basis of Dialogues des Carmélites, an opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc, completed in 1956.

Filmed in 1960 as Le Dialogue des Carmélites[1]

Performance history in South Africa

1955: Produced as The Chosen of God at the Little Theatre, Cape Town, by students of the School of Speech and Drama at the University of Cape Town, directed by Fred Engelen.

Sources

Inskip, 1972. p.142.

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