The title Sewe Stasies ("Seven stations") can refer to either one of two dramatic works:

Sewe Stasies, a radio play by Morkel van Tonder (1983)

The original text

A radio drama written by radio announcer and author Morkel van Tonder, the piece brings together two would-be suicides ("Willem" and "Marie") on the roof of a tall building, the tenants of the first seven floors of which are symbolic of various stations of life. On the first level there is a registry office of births and deaths and then successively a life insurance company, a law firm, a pastoral psychologist, a marriage bureau, a doctor and an undertaker and these levels with their activities are then representative of the broad spectrum of existence from the beginning of life to death.

Published by Human & Rousseau, first in the collection Sewe Stasies en Ander Hoorspele (1983 and 1986) then included in Voort met die Spel (1991).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Morkel van Tonder. 1983. Sewe Stasies en Ander Hoorspele. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau.

https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morkel_van_Tonder

Sewe Stasies, an Afrikaans kabaret by Engemi Ferreira

The full title of the text is Sewe Stasies oftewel Een Aand op die Trein na Pretoria, but it is also referred to in shorter form on occasion as Sewe Stasies or as Een Aand op die Trein na Pretoria ("One night on the train to Pretoria").

The original text

The original text was written by Ferreira, then workshopped for production with students of the Stellenbosch Drama Department, under the guidance of Herman Pretorius.

Text published by DALRO, 1990, 2005 - Afrikaans kabaret - 64 pages