The Good Hope
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The Good Hope, a play written by Herman Heijermans
in (1901), was translated in a new version for the Royal National Theatre
which relocated the action to the Yorkshire fishing community of Whitby in 1900, by Lee Hall
, writer of the award-winning Billy Elliot
and Spoonface Steinberg
.
The voyage of The Good Hope is a journey on which the life of the entire community depends. A storm rages, the women and children wait ashore, the boat follows the Greenland catch. A Dutch classic of the social realist theatre.
Its original Dutch title is:OP HOOP VAN ZEGEN, it was translated into English and produced as early as 1903 and produced for the first timke in England by the Stage Society on 26th April 1903. The very well known actress Miss Ellen Terry had it produced in all the leading towns of the English Provinces and in the London Suburbs in 1904 and 1905. On her American tour in 1906-07 the play was revived by her as it was later by THE PIONEER PLAYERS on 3rd November 1912
All this according to a letter of 10th May 1979 by Mrs.Anthony Thomas,curator of the Ellen Terry Museum, Tenterden,Kent.
Herman Heijermans
Herman Heijermans , was a Dutch writer.Heijermans grew up in a liberal Jewish family as the fifth of 11 children of Herman Heijermans Sr. and Matilda Moses Spiers...
in (1901), was translated in a new version for the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company...
which relocated the action to the Yorkshire fishing community of Whitby in 1900, by Lee Hall
Lee Hall (playwright)
Lee Hall is an English playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for the 2000 film Billy Elliot.-Early life:...
, writer of the award-winning Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British drama film written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Set in the fictional town of "Everington" in the real County Durham, UK, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older...
and Spoonface Steinberg
Spoonface Steinberg
Spoonface Steinberg is a play by British playwright Lee Hall, first broadcast as a dramatic monologue on 27 January 1997.It began life as the fourth and final play in the God's Country series of linked radio dramas broadcast in 1997 on BBC Radio 4...
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The voyage of The Good Hope is a journey on which the life of the entire community depends. A storm rages, the women and children wait ashore, the boat follows the Greenland catch. A Dutch classic of the social realist theatre.
Its original Dutch title is:OP HOOP VAN ZEGEN, it was translated into English and produced as early as 1903 and produced for the first timke in England by the Stage Society on 26th April 1903. The very well known actress Miss Ellen Terry had it produced in all the leading towns of the English Provinces and in the London Suburbs in 1904 and 1905. On her American tour in 1906-07 the play was revived by her as it was later by THE PIONEER PLAYERS on 3rd November 1912
All this according to a letter of 10th May 1979 by Mrs.Anthony Thomas,curator of the Ellen Terry Museum, Tenterden,Kent.