Hedda Gabler

From ESAT
Revision as of 13:05, 16 June 2014 by Miriamt (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. Written in 1890.

Performance history in South Africa

First performed in South Africa by ***.

Presented in English by the Brian Brooke Company in the Little Theatre, December 1947, produced by Mary Byron. The cast were Petrina Fry, Joan Ross, David Lytton, Brian Brooke.

An Afrikaans version by ** was done by André Huguenet in 193*? (Tr. **?)

Bloemfontein, produced by Bianca de Jager, 1939.

It opened on 24 January 1964 in the Hofmeyr Theatre as CAPAB's first Afrikaans play, directed by Suzanne van Wyk; (tr André P. Brink?*) and toured the Werstern Cape.

In 197* Sandra Prinsloo played Hedda in an Afrikaans PACT production, directed by Francois Swart?*

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans by André P. Brink, published by Human & Rousseau, 1974.

Sources

The South African Theatre, Music and Dance 1(1), 1939.

Trek, 12(1):26, 1948.


Return to

Return to H in Plays II Foreign Plays

Return to South_African_Theatre/Plays

Return to The ESAT Entries

Return to Main Page