The Cure
The Cure is a play by Athol Fugard and the Serpent Players. An adaptation of La Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli, to a township setting in the Eastern Cape.
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
This was the first production by the newly formed Serpent Players in the mid-1960s in the building in Bird Street, Port Elizabeth, formerly the museum. Rehearsals were held in the snake pit but performance in another room.
Performed by the Serpent Players, including John Kani, Winston Ntshona and Nomhle Nkonyeni in Grahamstown in September 1971
Sources
NELM catalogue.
EP Herald, 6 June 2006.
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