Glasshouse
Glasshouse is play by Fatima Dike
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The original text
A semi-autobiographical piece about a white girl and a black girl who grow up in the same household, but different worlds, examining the knots that entangle human relationships in South Africa.
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Performance history in South Africa
1979: Directed and lit by Brian Astbury at The Space (Cape Town), with a cast that consisted of Fatima Dike and Leonie Hofmeyr. Design by Bee Berman, the stage management by Arthur Benjamin and Denise Newman.
1979: The production opened at La Mama Theatre in New York later in the same year.
1996: The revised play, directed by Fatima Dike, was performed at the Open University, London on 30 August, produced by Southern Arts, the Open University, the Arts Council, and MADCAP.
Sources
Astbury 1979.
Wolff, 1997
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