Dialogues of the Carmelites
Dialogues of the Carmelites is a play by French novelist Georges Bernanos (1888-1948)[] [1].
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The original text
A French play 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.
Dialogues des Carmélites (1947).
Translations and adaptations
The text of the play was translated into English as The Chosen of God by Donald Inskip.
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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