'night, Mother

'night, Mother is a 1983 play for two women by American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist Marsha Norman (1947- ).

The play is the winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Translations and adaptations
Translated and adapted into Afrikaans under the title Nag, Ma by Antoinette Louw.

Performance history in South Africa
1983: Barney Simon’s production, starring Janice Honeyman and Julie Follansbee, was staged in the Laager in September.

2011: Nag, Ma, the Louw Afrikaans translation, was staged at the Vryfees in Bloemfontein and later at the Grahamstown Festival, directed by Lara Bye, with Sandra Prinsloo (Mother, Thelma) and Antoinette Louw (Jessie).

2012: Nag, Ma, the Louw Afrikaans translation, was staged at the Woordfees 2012, first in the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and then in the Little Libertas Theatre in Stellenbosch, directed by Lara Bye, with Sandra Prinsloo (Mother, Thelma) and Antoinette Louw (Jessie).

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