The Breaking of Bread
The Breaking of Bread is a one-act play by William Watson ()[].
Contents
The original text
Set in the American Civil War, it is about two soldiers who call call cautiously, challengingly, back and forth across the desolate clearing. Mere boys and sole survivors of their respective companies, Rep and Yankee agree to a desperate bargain: A life for a loaf of bread! The foes will lay down their guns for the moment, sit down together, break the stale crust of bread and share it. Afterward, they will again take up their rifles and face each other across the clearing in a final showdown.
Published in Baker's Plays, 1961.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans by Tinus Visser as Niks Behalwe Brood Nie ("Nothing but bread").
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Breaking_of_Bread.html?id=OPD3OBM48iwC&redir_esc=y
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/6439/the-breaking-of-bread
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