Non met Vakansie
Non met Vakansie ("Nun on vacation") is a comedy by Lizz Meiring
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The original text
A play about 50 year old Sister Magdalene, a disillusioned nun of Afrikaans origin, who under the pretext of a family crisis, books a vacation on the island Nazarene on the Portuguese coast, where she meets Drikus, a hedonistic Afrikaans man in his thirties, who has fled the rat-race and a broken marriage.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2019: First produced at the Laerskool Van Reedesaal at the KKNK festival by Artist Warehouse and Green Room Industries in March, directed by Gert van Niekerk with Lizz Meiring and Wynand van Vollenstee. Set design by the cast, with a backdrop painted by Fanus van Deventer, costumes by Hollywood Costumes and Heidi Bothman du Toit, photography by Empire Photography and stage management by Yvette Hanekom.
2019: Performed at the Inniebos Festival (26-29 June)
2019: Performed in the Pierneef Theatre, Pretoria, in July
2019: Performed in the Atterbury Theatre from 10 September
2019: Performed in the Banketsaal at the Aardklop festival in September from 24 to 28 September.
Sources
https://www.kknk.co.za/portfolio/non-met-vakansie/
https://www.netwerk24.com/Vermaak/Dagboek/doendinge-in-gauteng-20190726-12
https://www.innibos.co.za/teespoed-ry-toe-eerste-innibos-byna-in-die-wiele/
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