Everyman

Everyman is a medieval morality play.

See also the Dutch Elckerlijc, Afrikaans Elkeman.

Like John Bunyan's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress, Everyman uses allegorical characters to examine the question of Christian salvation and what Man must do to attain it.

Possibly the most famous late 15th-century morality play, .

Translations and adaptations

Everyman: a morality play: a modernised version of the Medieval interlude of the same name by Guy Butler [ms.]. – 1950 by Guy Butler.

Crossroads, by Theatre Workshop '71 is an improvised adaptation of Everyman.

An attempt by a touring company of actors to perform Elkeman in a rural South African town in 1936 is the framing event in Reza de Wet's Afrikaans play Miracle (performed in 1992 and published in 1993, then translated into English as Miracle and performed in 2000).

Performance history in South Africa

Pre-1931: Everyman produced by professor William H. Bell as his first production at the Stal Plein Hotel. (This activity which would lead to the founding of the Department of Speech and Drama in 19**.)

1963: Everyman translated and produced for the Rhodes University Players by Guy Butler, in collaboration with the Rhodes University Chamber Choir, directed by Georg Gruber, September 1963. (NELM AN: MANU-36130).

198*: Everyman performed by PACT with Pamela Gien, Madeleine Bertine Rose,

1992: Reza de Wet's play Miracle performed at the Grahamstown Festival.

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyman_(play)

World Drama, Allardyce Nicoll, 1949. p 164.

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