L'Enfant Prodigue

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There are a number of works entitled L'Enfant Prodigue ("The Prodigal Son")

L'Enfant Prodigue (1736) by Voltaire

This is a verse play in five acts by Voltaire (1694-1778)[], later also published under the title L'enfant Prodigue, ou L'ecole de la Jeunesse

The original text

First performed in Paris at the Théâtre de la Comédie Française on 10 October, 1736. Published in Paris by Prault fils. in 1738.

Translations and adaptations

Often parodied, it was doubtless the key source for the versions that followed.

Performance history in South Africa

L'Enfant Prodigue (1884) an opera by Claude Debussy (music) and Edouard Guinand (libretto)

The original text

First performed in Paris on 27 April, 1884 and in London at Covent Garden on 28 February, 1910.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

=L'Enfant Prodigue (189*) a "play without words"

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1893: Performed as in the mimed version as L'Enfant Prodigue in the Vaudeville Theatre, Cape Town, by the Wheeler Company, with Edward Vincent, Helen Rous, Gus Wheatman, Harriet Wood and Frank Wheeler.


Sources

Online facsimile version of the original French text of 1738, published by Ernest et Paul Fièvre, January 2018[1]

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p.516[2]

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.395, 431

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