Medeia-Ballade
Title
Medeia-Ballade
Description
Based on: Euripides’ Medea, Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica, and Jean Anouilh’s Médée. Desonia Hartogh (Medea) and other Cloetesville amateurs.
Translated by Benoni (‘Ben’) DeHaeck into Afrikaans, with fragments of Xhosa. This play won the ATKV prize at the Karoo amateur drama festival and was subsequently performed at the H. B. Thom Theatre in Stellenbosch.
Translated by Benoni (‘Ben’) DeHaeck into Afrikaans, with fragments of Xhosa. This play won the ATKV prize at the Karoo amateur drama festival and was subsequently performed at the H. B. Thom Theatre in Stellenbosch.
Year Created
1996
Performance Venue
Karoo amateur dramatic festival
H.B. Thom Theatre
Geographic Location of Performance
Producer
Die Breughel Teatergroep
Director
Ben DeHaeck
Translator
Ben DeHaeck
Performers
Desonia Hartogh
Cloetesville amateurs
Play Based On
Provenance
This information was retrieved from: Betine van Zyl Smit (2005) ‘Medea praat Afrikaans’; (2001) ‘Medea becomes politically correct’; and (2007) ‘Medea in Afrikaans’; private correspondence. This information was sourced and shared by Leo Kershaw.
