Something To Talk About
Something To Talk About is a short play by Eden Philpotts (1862-1960)[1]
Contents
The original text
A one-act play about a bored Sydney family who are being robbed by a thief named Wolf on Christmas morning, and they start fantasizing about this event and try to help the thief rob them completely.
Published in Modern Short Plays. 1930, University of London Press, Ltd.(pp.105-138)
Translations and adaptations
Translated in to Afrikaans and adapted for radio as Iets Om Oor Te Praat by Nic de Jager, for broadcast by the SABC on Afrikaans Stereo's programme Kleinteater. Broadcast on 14 March, 1995, directed by Eben Cruywagen. Repeated on 15 March, 1995.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Phillpotts
Copy of the radio script for Iets Om Oor Te Praat by Nic de Jager, held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch. Now held in the ESAT repository at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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