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| + | The tale of an orphaned young woman, urged by her aunts to marry a rich old man. | ||
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 17:18, 21 November 2022
Herr Sleeman kommer (English: Mr Sleeman is Coming) is a Swedish one-act play by Hjalmar Bergman.
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The original play
The tale of an orphaned young woman, urged by her aunts to marry a rich old man.
Translations and adaptations
1953: January (January 1997) writes that a full-length English play entitled Mr Sleeman is Coming by Denis Rhodes Granger was produced for the Worcester Dramatic Society in 1953, directed by Granger himself. This is most probably a mistake and the play used was the English translation of the Bergman one-act play.
1963: Translated into Afrikaans as Meneer Sleeman Kom (most probably from the English) by Leonora Nel.
Performance history in South Africa
1949: Mr Sleeman is Coming was presented by the University of Cape Town’s University Dramatic Society (sponsors) at the Little Theatre in October, directed by Arnold Pearce.
1963: Meneer Sleeman Kom was first produced by PACT, as a double bill with Die Skuld van Oedipus, in 1963, in the Pretoria National Theatre. Directed by Leonora Nel, with Kita Redelinghuijs, Leonora Nel, Vicki Vosloo/Phyllis Punt, Ernst Eloff and Jannie Gildenhuys.
Sources
Wikipedia [1].
Inskip, 1972. p.136.
PACT Report 1963/64.
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