Old Boys

A play by Anthony Akerman (1996). Full-length. Cast: mixed. Published in Dark Outsider: Three Plays by Wits University Press in 2000.

The original text
Based on Akerman's school days at Michaelhouse, a privileged Natal private boarding school for boys.

Won a Vita Best Script Award in 1997.

Business Day wrote of it: "You are unlikely to see anything as good on any other stage in the country".

Performance history in South Africa
Première production in the Loft Theatre at the Durban Playhouse in June 1996, directed by Anthony Akerman, with Nicholas Ashby, Jacqui Logie, Timothy Wells, Ashley Dowds and Antony Coleman.

Presented by PACT at the Grahamstown Festival 1997 and subsequently in The Civic in Johannesburg and the State Theatre in Pretoria, directed by Anthony Akerman, starring Nicholas Ashby, Kathy-Jo Ross, Terence Reis, Ashley Dowds, Antony Coleman, Stephen Gurney. Set design by Rod Smith, lighting by Michael Maxwell.

Staged at the Theatre on the Square in October 1998, directed by Anthony Akerman, with David Butler, Jennifer Steyn, Steven Raymond, Ashley Dowds and Antony Coleman

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