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''[[In the Drought]]'' is the English title for what was probably a unnamed and lost [[Afrikaans]] play by [[J. du Plessis]].
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''[[In the Drought]]'' is a one-act play by [[J. du Plessis]].
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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The play was published in ''[[Short Plays from Twelve Countries]]'', a collection of one act plays selected and edited by [[Winifred Katzin]] (London: George G Harrap and Co., 1937)
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
The play was translated and adaptated into English by [[Winifred Katzin]] and published in ''[[Short Plays from Twelve Countries]]'', a collection of one act plays selected and edited by [[Winifred Katzin|katzin]] (London: George G Harrap and Co., 1937)  
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The English title may have been the ttile given to  an unnamed (and lost?) [[Afrikaans]] play, translated and adaptated into English by [[Winifred Katzin]].
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 05:16, 22 May 2020

In the Drought is a one-act play by J. du Plessis.

The original text

The play was published in Short Plays from Twelve Countries, a collection of one act plays selected and edited by Winifred Katzin (London: George G Harrap and Co., 1937)

Translations and adaptations

The English title may have been the ttile given to an unnamed (and lost?) Afrikaans play, translated and adaptated into English by Winifred Katzin.


Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

"Katzin, Winifred", WorldCat online catalogue[1]

Sydney Paul Gosher. 1988. A Historical and Critical Survey of the South African One-Act Play Written in English. Unpublished D.Litt. et Phil. Thesis, University of South Africa. Go to ESAT Bibliography

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