Graceland
The title Graceland has been used for a number of performance items:
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Graceland: a one-act play by Ellen Byron (1956-)
The orignal text
A one-act play about two ardent Elvis Presley fans, Bev and Rootie, who are camped out at the front entrance of Graceland, the late Elvis Presley’s Memphis mansion, three days before the estate is to be opened to the public.
First performed as a play reading in 1982 and as a staged play in 1983. Published by Dramatist Play Service Inc in the volume Graceland and Asleep on the Wind
Performances
Sources
https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3489
Photocopy of the text, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022. Now held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa. (See Antoinette Kellerman Collection (KC).)
Graceland: the Paul Simon tour and video
The Ladysmith Black Mambaso became world famous in the 1980-1990s when the group worked with Paul Simon on tour and on his album and video called Graceland.
Their music and performances did much to propagate indigenous performance forms in the country and internationally. The musical style they developed, also permeated much of the popular performance in the 1990s and later, including many stage plays and musicals.
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