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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
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1965: The [[Afrikaans]] translation ''Elektra'' was staged by [[PACT]], directed by the Greek director [[Costis Michaelides]] (assisted by [[Leonora Nel]]), starring [[Anna Neethling-Pohl]] as  Klutaimnestra at the [[Aula]], Pretoria and the [[Civic Theatre]], Johannesburg. Other members of the cast were [[Francois Swart]] (Orestes), [[Carel Trichardt]] (Paidagogos), [[Marius Weyers]] (Pulades), [[Tine Balder]] (Elektra), [[Petru Wessels]] (Chrusothemis), [[Louis van Niekerk]] (Aigisthos). Decor and costumes designed by [[Raimond Schoop]].
  
and presented by [[PACT]] in 1965, directed by the Greek director Costas Michaelides (assisted by [[Leonora Nel]]), starring [[Anna Neethling-Pohl]] as  Klutaimnestra at the [[Aula]], Pretoria and the [[Civic Theatre]], Johannesburg. Other members of the cast were [[Francois Swart]] (Orestes), [[Carel Trichardt]] (Paidagogos), [[Marius Weyers]] (Pulades), [[Tine Balder]] (Elektra), [[Petru Wessels]] (Chrusothemis), [[Louis van Niekerk]] (Aigisthos). Decor and costumes designed by [[Raimond Schoop]]. Also by the [[University of Pretoria]] in 1966?* **  
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1966(?): The [[Afrikaans]] translation ''Elektra'' was staged by the [[University of Pretoria]] **  
 
 
Presented by [[Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] and the [[Bellville Civic Theatre]] in June 1968. Directed by [[Tine Balder]], starring [[Frikkie Engels]], [[Fred Nel]], [[Herman Pretorius]], [[Esther Brandt]], [[Annelize van der Ryst]], [[Deon Joubert]] and others.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
''Electra'' by Sophocles, as adapted by Barton and Cavander, directed by [[Gaerin Hauptfleisch]] for the [[University of Stellenbosch Drama Department]], September 1997 in the [[Little Libertas Theatre]]. The cast: Lorraine Burger, Tania Strauss, [[Nina Swart]], James Lapping, Carlien Mostert, Susan Rabe, [[Keith Bain]].
 
 
 
 
 
  
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1978: The [[Afrikaans]] translation ''Elektra'' was presented by [[Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] and the [[Bellville Civic Theatre]] in June, directed by [[Tine Balder]], starring [[Frikkie Engels]], [[Fred Nel]], [[Herman Pretorius]], [[Esther Brandt]], [[Annelize van der Ryst]], [[Deon Joubert]] and others.
  
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1977: ''Electra'' by Sophocles, as adapted by Barton and Cavander, directed by [[Gaerin Hauptfleisch]] for the [[University of Stellenbosch Drama Department]], in September in the [[Little Libertas Theatre]]. The cast: [[Lorraine Burger]], [[Tania Strauss]], [[Nina Swart]], [[James Lapping]], [[Carlien Mostert]], [[Susan Rabe]], [[Keith Bain]].
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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''World Drama'' by Allardyce Nicoll, 1949.
 
''World Drama'' by Allardyce Nicoll, 1949.
  
UTS theatre pamphlet
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[[PACT]] theatre programme, 1965.
  
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[[UTS]] theatre pamphlet.
  
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography|ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography|ESAT Bibliography]]

Revision as of 06:14, 1 June 2015

Electra, by Sophocles (circa 495-406 B.C.). Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, it is based around the character of Electra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

Electra (circa 413 B.C.), by Euripides (485-406 B.C.). The play deals with the same theme as that of the similarly named tragedy by Sophocles.

Electra (1900), by Spanish playwright Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920). The play discusses the problem of the girl who is being impelled towards a convent life for which she is entirely unsuited.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Elektra by J.P.J. van Rensburg (published by Human & Rousseau, 1969).

Electra by Sophocles, adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander. Published in The Greeks : ten Greek plays given as a trilogy, Heinemann, 1981.

Performance history in South Africa

1965: The Afrikaans translation Elektra was staged by PACT, directed by the Greek director Costis Michaelides (assisted by Leonora Nel), starring Anna Neethling-Pohl as Klutaimnestra at the Aula, Pretoria and the Civic Theatre, Johannesburg. Other members of the cast were Francois Swart (Orestes), Carel Trichardt (Paidagogos), Marius Weyers (Pulades), Tine Balder (Elektra), Petru Wessels (Chrusothemis), Louis van Niekerk (Aigisthos). Decor and costumes designed by Raimond Schoop.

1966(?): The Afrikaans translation Elektra was staged by the University of Pretoria **

1978: The Afrikaans translation Elektra was presented by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in the H.B. Thom Theatre and the Bellville Civic Theatre in June, directed by Tine Balder, starring Frikkie Engels, Fred Nel, Herman Pretorius, Esther Brandt, Annelize van der Ryst, Deon Joubert and others.

1977: Electra by Sophocles, as adapted by Barton and Cavander, directed by Gaerin Hauptfleisch for the University of Stellenbosch Drama Department, in September in the Little Libertas Theatre. The cast: Lorraine Burger, Tania Strauss, Nina Swart, James Lapping, Carlien Mostert, Susan Rabe, Keith Bain.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_(Sophocles)

World Drama by Allardyce Nicoll, 1949.

PACT theatre programme, 1965.

UTS theatre pamphlet.

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