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==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
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Adapted into ''[[Bobaas van die Boendoe]]'', an Afrikaans play by [[André P. Brink]].
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

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The Playboy of the Western World (1907), by Irish playwright John M. Synge (1871-1909).

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into Bobaas van die Boendoe, an Afrikaans play by André P. Brink.

Performance history in South Africa

Presented by PACT in the Civic Theatre, Johannesburg and the National Theatre, Pretoria in 1963. Directed by Victor Melleney, settings by Cazik Dubinski, costumes by Gladys Haupt. The cast included James White, Arthur Hall, Siegfried Mynhardt, Fiona Fraser, Patrick Mynhardt, Paddy Canavan, Richard Daneel and others.

CAPAB production of The Playboy of the Western World in 1976, directed by David Crichton, with Lois Butlin, Nicholas Ellenbogen, Philip Godawa and Peter Krummeck in the cast.

Sources

PACT report 1963/64.

The Argus 12 April 1976


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