Boklied

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Boklied ("Goat song") is an Afrikaans play by Breyten Breytenbach (1939-2024).

The play

Breytenbach's first full-length play,

First performed in 1998 and published by Human and Rousseau in the same year.

Performance history in South Africa

1998: First produced at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees in Oudtshoorn in 1998, directed by Marthinus Basson (for which he was awarded the De Kat Herrie Prize) with Grethe Fox (Madonna), Emile Serfontein (Ritsos), Nomhle Nkonyeni (Isis), Gustav Geldenhuys (Tereus), Dawid Minnaar (Maker), Antoinette Kellermann (Farenj), Duma Mnembe (Adam) and Brian Heydenrych (Musikant).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

Petrus du Preez 2003. Die slagveld van teks en betekenis: enkele aspekte in die dramatiek van Breyten Breytenbach. Unpublished master’s thesis. Stellenbosch, University of Stellenbosch.

Petrus du Preez 2004. "Babel en Breytenbach: kwessies rondom die ‘verstaanbare’ in die Afrikaanse dramas van Breyten Breytenbach". South African Theatre Journal, 18:184-220.

Johann van Heerden (2008)[1]. pp. 119-121.


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