Composers and their stage works 


Aimé Césaire

French poet, teacher, politician, historian and playwright: Born Martinique 1913

Stage Works

  1. And the Dogs Kept Quiet (Et les chiens se taisaient) poem-play (1956) as Und die Hunde schwiegen (Basel, 1960; Hanover, 1963)
  2. The Tragedy of King Christophe (La tragédie du roi Christophe, 1963, rev. 1970)
  3. A Season in the Congo (Une saison au Congo; wr. 1966, prod. 1967)
  4. A Tempest (Une tempête: d'après "La tempête " de Shakespeare. Adaptation pour un théâtre nègre, 1969), an adaptation of Shakespeare's play; Produced in Paris in October, 1968