Eternal Palace

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Eternal Palace is a play by Hilton Swemmer. One-act. Cast: mixed (two-hander).

It is a portrait of South African artist Walter Battiss [1] and his wife Grace Anderson. The play is named after one of Battiss's paintings, exploring two governing forces in his life: bushman art and Grace Anderson. So it deals with hunting, which is the primal source of carnivorism.

Playscript held by NELM: [Collection: DALRO]: 2001. 41. 278.

Sources

The Star, 12 February 1998.


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