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''[[The Climax]]'' is a play in three acts by Edward Locke ()[], with incidental music by Joseph Carl Breil (1870 - 1926)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Carl_Breil].
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''[[The Climax]]'' is a play in three acts by Edward Locke (1869-1945)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Locke], with incidental music by Joseph Carl Breil (1870 - 1926)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Carl_Breil].
  
 
This play has also been ascribed to both Clifford Bax (1886-1962)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Bax] and  Paul Géraldy (1885-1983)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G%C3%A9raldy] by various South African sources.  
 
This play has also been ascribed to both Clifford Bax (1886-1962)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Bax] and  Paul Géraldy (1885-1983)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G%C3%A9raldy] by various South African sources.  
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Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Die Nagtegaal]]'' ("The Nightingale") by ** in 19**.  
 
Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Die Nagtegaal]]'' ("The Nightingale") by ** in 19**.  
  
 
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Filmed in in 1930 and again in 1944. The latter film, a horror movie produced by Universal Pictures and first released in the United States in 1944, is claimed by the producers to have been based on the play, but there is only a tenuous relationship between the play and the film.  
Claimed by the producers to have been the source of a horror film called ''[[The Climax]]'',  produced by Universal Pictures and first released in the United States in 1944, However there is but a tenuous relationship between the play and the film.  
 
  
 
Produced by [[André Huguenet]] in 194* with a predominantly male cast plus a very young [[Sandra van der Merwe]] as "the voice" of the nightingale, Huguenet and [[Johan Nell]].   
 
Produced by [[André Huguenet]] in 194* with a predominantly male cast plus a very young [[Sandra van der Merwe]] as "the voice" of the nightingale, Huguenet and [[Johan Nell]].   

Revision as of 06:21, 1 December 2020

The Climax is a play in three acts by Edward Locke (1869-1945)[1], with incidental music by Joseph Carl Breil (1870 - 1926)[2].

This play has also been ascribed to both Clifford Bax (1886-1962)[3] and Paul Géraldy (1885-1983)[4] by various South African sources.

which premiered on 12 April 1909, at Joseph W. Weber's Music Hall, New York City.

Translated into Afrikaans as Die Nagtegaal ("The Nightingale") by ** in 19**.

Filmed in in 1930 and again in 1944. The latter film, a horror movie produced by Universal Pictures and first released in the United States in 1944, is claimed by the producers to have been based on the play, but there is only a tenuous relationship between the play and the film.

Produced by André Huguenet in 194* with a predominantly male cast plus a very young Sandra van der Merwe as "the voice" of the nightingale, Huguenet and Johan Nell.

Sources

Song of the Soul: From the Incidental Music to Edward Locke's Drama "The Climax" Sheet music – January 1, 1909. (Author) Song of the Soul: From the Incidental Music to Edward Locke's Drama "The Climax", Sheet music – Chappell & Co., Ltd., New York (January 1, 1909) January 1, 1909

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Bax

Filma (Kultuur), January 1946. 18.

According to a list of productions by Huguenet in the Oedipus Rex theatre programme (1956) The Climax is ascribed to French playwright Paul Géraldy (1885-1983)[5].

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