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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
Directed by [[Cecil Williams]], with sets designed by [[Anthony Farmer]] and [[Charles Stodel]] in the cast, at the [[Library Theatre]], Johannesburg, in June 1957.
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Presented by the [[Johannesburg Repertory Players ]], directed by [[Cecil Williams]], with sets designed by [[Anthony Farmer]] and [[Charles Stodel]] in the cast, at the [[Library Theatre]], Johannesburg, in June 1957.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
 
Theatre programme held by [[NELM]]: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 13. 1167.
 
Theatre programme held by [[NELM]]: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 13. 1167.
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[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997. 107.
  
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Revision as of 16:15, 11 November 2015

The Strong Are Lonely (original title in German Das heilige Experiment (1942-3)) by Austrian playwright Fritz Hochwaelder [1] (1911-1986), who wrote social and political dramas, using historical themes in his plays. The Strong Are Lonely drew on the violent dismantling of a utopian Jesuit settlement by the Spaniards in Paraguay in the 1760s.

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Performance history in South Africa

Presented by the Johannesburg Repertory Players , directed by Cecil Williams, with sets designed by Anthony Farmer and Charles Stodel in the cast, at the Library Theatre, Johannesburg, in June 1957.

Sources

Theatre programme held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 13. 1167.

Tucker, 1997. 107.

Go to ESAT Bibliography

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