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== Sources ==
 
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Programme Alexander Theatre. No 166  September, 1963. 
  
 
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Revision as of 09:57, 18 September 2013

Originally called Gas Light, it is a 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton. The two filmed versions introduced the current spelling,

Filmed twice in the 1940s. The first, a British film, was made in 1940 and directed by Thorold Dickinson, starring Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard and Frank Pettingell. Then another version in 1944 by MGM, directed by George Cukor (1944 - with Ingrid bergman, Charles Boyer and Angela Lansbury).

Performance history in South Africa

Gaslight performed by the Langford-Inglis company in 1962,


Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans by Pierre de Wet as Satansloon ("Satan's Payment") and produced by his company in 1942. He later made into a film by the same name.

Sources

Programme Alexander Theatre. No 166 September, 1963.

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