Pa, Maak vir my 'n Vlieër Pa

Pa, Maak vir my 'n Vlieër Pa ("Dad, Make me a Kite Dad") is an Afrikaans play by Chris Barnard (1939-2015).

The original text

A play about a man and his relationship with his mother and a (fictional?) son. A key absurdist work in the South African theatre, perhaps the best.

Written in 1963, published by Afrikaanse Pers Boekhandel in 1964. Performance text also published by Dalro.

Translated into English as Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Antony Dawes(some sources have the translator as the author himself).

1965: The first performance of the play was in the National Theatre Pretoria on 30 September 1965 (produced by PACT), directed by Robert Mohr starring Cobus Rossouw, Kita Redelinghuijs and Franz Marx.

1969: CAPAB's production of the Afrikaans text openened in the Hofmeyr Theatre on 19 December 1969. Robert Mohr was the director, assisted by Ken Leach. Raimond Schoop designed the decor. Stage director Scott Robertson, stage manager Brian Kennedy. The cast were Kita Redelinghuijs, Cobus Rossouw and Wilson Dunster. The English translation Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow premiered on 27 December 1969 in the Hofmeyr Theatre directed by Mohr with the same cast and credits.

1985: Staged by PACT, designed and directed by Dawie Malan, with Lida Botha (Vrou), Eric Nobbs (Org) and Jakes Jacobs (Man).

2016: After a members' preview at the Oakdale Club in the Cape, opened at the Inniebos Festival on 28 June, directed by Albert Maritz, with Sandra Prinsloo, Waldi Schultz en Wilhelm van der Walt.