Maskermaan

Maskermaan by Cecilia du Toit (19**-)

Maskermaan ("Mask-moon") is an Afrikaans South African drama. It imagines a fictional meeting between the Afrikaans poets Louis Leipoldt and Eugène Marais, whose initially convivial conversation about poetry, love of nature and knowledge of the veld hardens into a ruthless contest of concealed agendas, in which Leipoldt's wish to help Marais overcome his addiction becomes a game of masks put up and torn away.

The original text

Written by Cecilia du Toit. The play was well received at the Volksblad Kunstefees.* First publication not traced.*

Performance history in South Africa

2010: Staged at the US Woordfees, Stellenbosch, in the Japie Krige-saal on 1 and 2 March, as part of the Sanlam Dramafees and supported by the National Arts Council. Directed by Nico Luwes, with Gerben Kamper, Peter Taljaard, Babes Mpatseng and Maria de Koker.

Sources

'Woordfees 2010: Volledige program', LitNet, 18 January 2010.

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