The Good Hope (fromDutch:Op hoop van zegen; more literally:Hoping for the best) is a Dutch play written byHerman Heijermans in 1900/1901.
It takes place in a fishing village, with the conflict between thefishermen and their employer ending intragedy with the unsound boat setting out to sea and sinking with all hands and the owner pocketing the insurance money.
The play is still staged today,[1][2] and remains the most popular play by Dutch dramatistHerman Heijermans. A socialist, Heijermans is considered to have meant the play as a criticism of the entirecapitalist system, though some present-day productions downplay this radical approach.
The plat was translated in a new version for theRoyal National Theatre, which relocated the action to the Yorkshire fishing community ofWhitby in 1900, byLee Hall.[3]
The voyage ofThe 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 isOp Hoop Van Zegen; it was translated into English and produced as early as 1903 and produced for the first time in England by the Stage Society on 26 April 1903.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 3 November 1912.[X 1]
There arefour films based on the play. The most recent was made in 1986, featuringDanny de Munk asBarend.
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