Alcibiade Orange

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Alcibiade Orange (fl 1960-1970s) is the pseudonym of a South African playwright.

Biography

From the only references found (Die Burger, 8 May, 1969), it appears that it this was the pseudonym chosen by a black expatriate South African, living or studying in London, probably in (voluntary?) exile in the late 1960s.

Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance

Wrote 'n Kwessie van 'n Pomp ("a question of a pump") a fictional anti-apartheid play inspired by the first successful heart transplant by Dr Christiaan Barnard in 1967. The play was performed in Parys (given the theme one assumes this was Paris, France, not the town in the Free State), during May of 1969.

Sources

Die Burger, 8th May, 1969

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Author of an article on "Brett Bailey" in Middeke, Schnierer and Homann (2015). Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer and Greg Homann (editors). 2015. The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.