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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
''[[Sunday Star]]'' 18 March 1990.
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''[[The Star|Sunday Star]]'' 18 March 1990.
  
 
[[PACT]] theatre programme, 1990.
 
[[PACT]] theatre programme, 1990.

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Donderdag se Mense (Afrikaans for "Thursday's People") is a play by Pieter Fourie (1940-).

The original text

A play dealing with declining moral values and the exploitation of farm workers, this was the third play in Fourie's original trilogy of "farm tragedies", following on Ek, Anna van Wyk (1986) and Die Koggelaar (1988).

Written and published by HAUM-literêr in 1989, the text was submitted to PACT for performance in terms of his contract with them as Resident Dramatist and SACPAC award-winner. It had its first performance in 1990.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1990: First performed by PACT, opening in the Windybrow Theatre, Johannesburg on the 17th March and in the Momentum Theatre at the State Theatre complex on 2 April and playing till the 28th. Directed by Deon Opperman, with Louis van Niekerk (Piet), Lida Meiring (Letta), Peter Se-Puma (Tern) and Noria Mabuela (Sina). Set designed by Nadya Cohen.

Sources

Sunday Star 18 March 1990.

PACT theatre programme, 1990.

Petru & Carel Trichardt theatre programme collection.

Nico Luwes 2010. Pieter Fourie (1940-) se bydrae as Afrikaanse dramaturg en kunsbestuurder: 1965-2010. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Bloemfontein: University of the Free State, pp.442-463 [1]

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