Raiders of the Lost Count
Raiders of the Lost Count is a play by Nicholas Ellenbogen
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The original text
The play tells of the quest of April, a stripper from District Six, who sets off to seek out her lover, the Count, who has been abducted by the dreaded Bali Omar, and is part of a slave train somewhere in East Africa. To get there she steals a Tiger Moth biplane and heads north into darkest Africa, where she enlists various allies, frustrating plans for germ warfare and has many other adventures before she triumphs in her mission.
The performance text is contained in Volume Four of The Complete Works of Nicholas Ellenbogen and Theatre for Africa (privately published by Theatre for Africa)
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1995: Performed at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, directed by Nicholas Ellenbogen with himself, Esmael Texeira, Nhlanhla Mavundla, Roger Lucey and Patrick Mofokeng.
Sources
David le Page. 1995. Playful lunacy of Raiders, Mail and Guardian 20 Oct 1995[1]
Theatre for Africa. (n.d.) The Complete Works of Nicholas Ellenbogen and Theatre for Africa Claremont, Cape Town.
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