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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
The play is based on a short story by Dinelli.
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The play is based on "To Find Help", a short story by Dinelli, and made its debut on Broadway in 1950. It was later turned into a film, ''Beware, My Lovely'' (19**).
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 16:08, 9 October 2020

The Man is a 1950 play by American playwright Mel Dinelli (1912-1991) [1].

The original text

The play is based on "To Find Help", a short story by Dinelli, and made its debut on Broadway in 1950. It was later turned into a film, Beware, My Lovely (19**).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1961: Staged by the Durban Lyric Theatre Company, directed by Kenneth Baker, with Patricia Sanders (Mrs Gillis), Diana Tullis (Ruth), Brian Lawson (Armstrong), Charles Vernon (Wilton), Gordon Atkins (Franks), Maurice Orden (Doug), and Kenneth Baker (Stevens).

Sources

Durban Lyric Theatre Company programme, 1961.

Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.

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