The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (play)
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Written by | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
Date premiered | 26 March 1952 (1952-03-26) |
Place premiered | Munich, Germany |
Original language | German |
The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (German: Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi) is a play by the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The play was written in 1950, but Dürrenmatt continued to revise it until 1980.[1] It premiered on 26 March 1952 at the Munich Kammerspiele, directed by Hans Schweikart. It was then performed in Chile, Israel, and New York.[2] The play was adapted into a 1961 film with the same title.[3] The Iranian director and playwright Homayoun Ghanizadeh adapted the play in 2016 and staged the new production, Mississippi Dies Seated, at the Vahdat Hall in Tehran.[4]
See also
- Swiss literature
- 1952 in literature
References
- ^ Ormsby, Eric (2007-02-07). "Dürrenmatt's Prison of Paradox". The New York Sun. Retrieved 2012-02-14.
- ^ Tiusanen, Timo (1977). Durrenmatt: A Study in Plays, Prose, Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p. 108.
- ^ Koczian, Johanna von; Held, Martin (1961-03-01). "Justiz-Krise". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 2012-02-14.
- ^ "Tiwall.com - Mississippi Dies Seated".
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Works by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Romulus the Great
- The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi
- The Visit
- The Physicists
- Play Strindberg
- The Judge and His Hangman
- Suspicion
- "The Tunnel"
- Once a Greek
- A Dangerous Game
- The Pledge
- The Execution of Justice
- The Assignment