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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
  
 
1943: Produced  by the [[Johannesburg Repertory Society]], with [[Frank Douglass]] in 1943.
 
1943: Produced  by the [[Johannesburg Repertory Society]], with [[Frank Douglass]] in 1943.
  
1956: Produced by [[NTO]] in 1956.
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1956: Produced by [[National Theatre Organisation]] in 1956.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:35, 12 April 2016

There are two plays by this name that have been performed in South Africa.


The Play's the Thing by Jill Fletcher

The original text

An unpublished, undated typescript of a one-act play held by the author.


Sources

Gosher, 1988

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The Play's the Thing by Ferenc Molnár

An English translation of Játék a kastélyban ("The play in the castle", 1925) by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár (1878-1952)[1].


The original text

Translations and adaptations

Translated into English as The Play's the Thing or The Play in the Castle,

Translated into Afrikaans as Gekonkel in die Nag ("Schemes in the night")

Performance history in South Africa

1943: Produced by the Johannesburg Repertory Society, with Frank Douglass in 1943.

1956: Produced by National Theatre Organisation in 1956.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Moln%C3%A1r

Trek , 8(2):16, 1943.

World Drama by Allardyce Nicoll. Harrap, 1949.


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