Huit Femmes

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Huit Femmes ("Eight Women") is a 1958 dark comedy drama by French dramatist Robert Thomas. The plot follows eight women as they gather to celebrate Christmas in an isolated, snowbound cottage only to find Marcel, the family patriarch, dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret. (Wikipedia [1])

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English Eight Women and Afrikaans Agt Vroue by Jocelyn de Bruyn (c. 1963).

Performance history in South Africa

1963: Agt Vroue staged by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch, directed by Jo Gevers,with Carmen Haddad, Elise Ziervogel, Christine Basson, Antoinette Terblanche, Esther van Ryswyk, Annatjie Vorster, Marie Pentz and Gertie Smith-Visser. Voice of the radio announcer, Franz Marx.

Agt Vroue directed by Leonora Nel for PACT, 1965.


Sources

UTS theatre pamphlet

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