The Miracle Worker
A play by William Gibson.
Contents
The original text
A play about
Performance history in South Africa
1961: Produced by the Cockpit Players, opening at the Hofmeyr Theatre in January and going on a Southern African tour. Directed by Leonard Schach with Joyce Bradley, Fiona Fraser, Joan Gibson, Estelle Kohler, Reinet Maasdorp and Alan Prior. Decor was by Pamela Lewis.
1979: Performed in Afrikaans by CAPAB in the Nico Malan Theatre, opening on 17 April, directed by William Eganwith Johan Botha, Brümilda van Rensburg, Marko van der Colff, Melanie-Ann Sher, Liz Dick, Allan Dyssel, Sandra Ferreira, Johan Esterhuizen, Neels Coetzee, Trix Pienaar, Amanda Strydom, Willem de la Querra. Lighting by John T. Baker. Translation by Pieter-Paul Fourie.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Die Wonderwerk, by Pieter-Paul Fourie was staged by PACT, directed by Leonard Schach and starring Diane Britz, Rika Sennett and Trix Pienaar in 1978.
Another Afrikaans translation, also called Die Wonderwerk, was done by Johan Mocke. The text is held by Dalro[1].
Sources
Inskip, 1977. p 123
Star 18 July 1978.
CAPAB theatre pamphlet, 1979.
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