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ADELAIDE UNIVEBSITY THEATNE GUILD clhe Miser Freely adaptedfrom Moliere's "LlAvare', by MILES MALLESON ,'a{""* t i Ii f i{ \ AT TEE EUT l6th October 18th Ostober 19th October 1950
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ADELAIDE UNIVEBSITY
THEATNE GUILD
clhe MiserFreely adapted from Moliere's "LlAvare',
by
MILES MALLESON
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AT TEE EUT
l6th October
18th Ostober
19th October
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NOTE BY MILES MALLESON
Jt began with-a-€hrisr.mas prercnr:-arr-edition of Molie.e,liihthe French on one side of the stage and a more or less literal translationopposite. I read The Miser, and thought whar a pity that the literaltranslation made it impossible for our theatre today. I tried re-writing a'few scenes, making the dialogue easier to speak, and then worked overit again, and once again-each time getting less literal but, as I hope,more actable. Until finally my attempt has beeh-nqt to make a literaltranslation, far from it-but to "translate" the play, to carry it across fromthe French stage of nearly three hundied years ago to the English stageof tedav.
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THE MISER
A Com.edry in Two Acts
The action of the play takes place in the house of Monsieur Harpagon inParis in the year 1668
THE MISER
Characws as they appear
ELISE
VALERE
CLEANTE
LA FLECHE
HARPAGON
OLD MASTER SIMON
FROSINE
JACQUES
FIRST SERVANT
SECOND SERVANT
MARIANE
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
SEIGNEUR ANSELM
Under the direction of
IRIS HART
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The Theatre Guild deeply regrets the suddenDavies, who conceived and was directing this
weeks ago
Setting and Lighting
C-ostumes
Stage Management
WONNE HARRIS
- JOHN TAYLOR
. BRIAN SMITH
PETER DAWE
BRIAN FISHER
. JIM REARDON
IRIS HART
CLEM O'DONOGHUE
- loHN FTSHER
NORMAN DILLON
- PHYLLIS BAKER
JACK TAGGART
RONALD PETERSON
death of Mr. Jonathanproduction until three
CHARLES BANNON
- BRIAN SMITH
. EDWARD EY
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UNIVEBSITY TITEATBE GTIILD
Paf.rots
Dr; T. D. Garnpbell Professor J. G. CoroellProfessor John Bishop Dr. C. E. Fenner
l!ft. Franl S. Iohnstm
Conmittee
il{iss T. Baulderstone
Miss E id Brown
Miss S. Davies
Miss Rosemary Firch
t{iss Patricia Hackett
Mr. Roy Leaney
n[r. H. W. Piper
M$. I. Thonas
Miss G. D. Walsh
Miss Enid Iewis (Theatre Guild Manager)
Mr. Charles Bannon (Theatre Guild Art Director)
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NOTICES
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of the University
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