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''[[Blindemol]]'' ("Blind mole") is a radio drama by [[Chris Barnard]] (1939-2015)
 
''[[Blindemol]]'' ("Blind mole") is a radio drama by [[Chris Barnard]] (1939-2015)
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==The original text==
  
==The original text==
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A memory play about Rudolf Preller, whom the listener gets to known on the day of his funeral, when he comments on and thinks about the the people and events in the seaside town where he had worked as a blind piano-tuner.
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Written as a commissioned work for the celebration of 70 years of radio in South Africa, it was first broadcast in 2007.
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Published in the collection ''[[Droomskip en Ander Radiodramas]]'', the piece was awarded the [[Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns]]'s pennant for radiodrama in 2008.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== 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 ==
 
== Sources ==
  
[[D.C. Boonzaier]], 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage",  in ''SA Review'', 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
  
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp.203-205
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https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Barnard_(skrywer)
  
 
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Latest revision as of 07:28, 20 June 2023

Blindemol ("Blind mole") is a radio drama by Chris Barnard (1939-2015)

The original text

A memory play about Rudolf Preller, whom the listener gets to known on the day of his funeral, when he comments on and thinks about the the people and events in the seaside town where he had worked as a blind piano-tuner.

Written as a commissioned work for the celebration of 70 years of radio in South Africa, it was first broadcast in 2007.

Published in the collection Droomskip en Ander Radiodramas, the piece was awarded the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns's pennant for radiodrama in 2008.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Barnard_(skrywer)

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