The Good Hope (from Dutch: Op Hoop van Zegen; more literally: Hoping
for the best) is a Dutch play written by Herman Heijermans in
1900/1901. It takes place in a fishing village, with the conflict
between the fishermen and their employer ending in tragedy with the
unsound boat setting out to sea and sinking with all hands and the
owner pocketing the insurance money. It is still staged, and remains
the most popular play by Dutch dramatist Herman Heijermans. The
socialist Heijermans is considered to have meant the play as a
criticism of the entire capitalist system, though some present-day
productions downplay this radical approach.It 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 time in England by the Stage Society on 26 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 1906â€"07 the play was revived
by her as it was later by The Pioneer Players on 3 November 1912. All
this according to a letter of 10 May 1979 by Mrs. Anthony Thomas,
curator of the Ellen Terry Museum, Tenterden, Kent. The Good Hope Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter