The Good Old Days
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The Good Old Days as title
The Good Old Days often occurs in theatre, TV and film as the title of a dramatic work[1]
For example it occurs as the title of a 1940 British comedy (set in 1840), a popular BBC television light entertainment television program which ran from 1953 to 1983 or a 1996 Hong Kong drama series set in the early 20th century.
It is also found as The Good Old Days?, a British one-act play by Liz Dobson[2]
South African dramatic works
The Good Old Days A Stage play (Anon.)
The original text
A play set in the Apartheid era, dealing with the so-called immorality act in South Africa and a woman's unhappy marriage, commitment to a psychiatric hospital and ultimate suicide.
The text is unpublished. An anonymous copy of the typed text found in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch, and 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.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
No evidence of a production found to date.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Old_Days
https://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Scripts/Script.aspx?iSS=2364
The text of the typed text of The Good Old Days, held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch.
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