Boy from Bethulie
Boy from Bethulie (sometimes billed as The Boy from Bethulie) by Patrick Mynhardt (1932-2007).
Original text
A one-man autobiographical piece. Always performed by the author.
Performance history in South Africa
1983: Staged at the Baxter Theatre. Also staged at the Intimate Theatre by a group called A Teater as their first production.
1984: Presented by Brian Charteris, with Patrick Mynhardt, on the National Arts Festival Fringe.
1990: Staged at the Warehouse in May.
1996: Staged in October at Die Teaterhuisie in Pretoria.
2004: Staged in June in the Liberty Life Theatre on the Square.
Mynhardt died in London in 2007, where he was performing in this show at the Jermyn Street Theatre in the West End.
Sources
National Arts Festival programme, 1984.
Barrow, Brian & Williams-Short, Yvonne (eds.). 1988. Theatre Alive! The Baxter Story 1977-1987.
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