Idiot's Delight

Idiot's Delight is a play by Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955)[1].

The original text

The play was produced by the Theatre Guild and directed by Bretaigne Windust. After a pre-Broadway tryout at the National Theatre, Washington, D.C., it opened at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on 24 March, 1936, and ran for 300 performances till 30 January, 1937.

The play was nominated for the 1936 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best American Play and awarded the 1936 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Translations and adaptations

The play was adapted for film by Sherwood and filmed in 1939 with Norma Shearer and Clark Gable.[2]

Translated into Afrikaans as Die Hotel op die Grens ("The hotel on the border") and adapted as a radio play by S.J. Pretorius in 1961.

Performance history in South Africa

1961: Die Hotel op die Grens broadcast by the SABC in the programme Radioteater on 3 March, directed by Pieter Grobbelaar.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot%27s_Delight_(play)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot%27s_Delight_(film)

S.J. Pretorius. 1961. Copy of the typed SABC radio text of Die Hotel op die Grens, held in the Drama Department archive of the University of Stellenbosch.

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