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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Published in Paris by Calmann-Lévy, 1883.
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First performed in Paris, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, on 6 December, 1880. Published in Paris by Calmann-Lévy, 1883.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 17:50, 17 October 2017

Divorçons! ("Let's get a divorce!") is a French comedy in three acts by Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) and Émile de Najac (1828-1889)[1].

The original text

First performed in Paris, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, on 6 December, 1880. Published in Paris by Calmann-Lévy, 1883.

Translations and adaptations

A German version, based on Sardou's play, called Die Geschiedene Frau ("The divorcée") was adapted as an operetta in three acts by Leo Fall with a libretto by Victor Léon. It opened at the Carltheater in Vienna on 23 December 1908.

It was translated into Italian and opened at the Teatro Lirico Internationale in Milan as La divorziata on 16 August 1909, then translated into English as The Girl in the Train by George Edwardes, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, and performed in two acts at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, from 4 June 1910. A new translation with the same title, by Harry B. Smith (1860-1936), was performed at the Globe Theatre, New York, from 3 October to 5 November 1910. Translated as Divorce, of course! by and Robert Goldsby, Lee Pockriss and Hal Hackady in

Performance history in South Africa

1911: The Girl in the Train performed by the Wheeler Company in the Opera House, Cape Town.


Sources

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k104223q

https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100523979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_geschiedene_Frau

https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/the-girl-in-the-train-3907

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.435.


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