Questa sera si recita a soggetto
Questa sera si recita a soggetto is a play by Luigi Pirandello ()[1]
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The original text
It premiered in 1930 in a German translation in Königsberg, and had its first Italian performance in Turin on April 14, 1930.
Translations and adaptations
According to Wikipedia[2], it has been translated into English as Tonight We Improvise! by Samuel Putnam (1932), Marta Abba (1959), and J. Douglas Campbell and Leonard Sbrocchi (1987).
Translated into Afrikaans as Vanaand Improviseer Ons by an unnamed author.
Another Afrikaans version is a translation of the Primo intermezzo section, named Tussenspel, also by an unnamed author (A set of texts found in archives of the Stellenbosch Drama Department).
Performance history in South Africa
1984: Tussenspel performed by students at the University of Stellenbosch?
Sources
Pirandello.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_We_Improvise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Pirandello
Copy of the Afrikaans translation found in the Stellenbosch University drama archives.
Copy of the Afrikaans translation of the Primo Intermezzo, found in the Stellenbosch University drama archives.
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