The Last Voyage

There are two plays with this title:

The Last Voyage is a one-act play by Pauline Smith.

The Last Voyage is a play by Tandi Buchan.

The Last Voyage by Pauline Smith

The original text

Written in 1929 about an impoverished couple. In the play the husband has secretly saved fifty pounds so that he may go on a voyage to England. This voyage is particularly important becuase of his recent illness, yet a problem arises when his grandson gets ill and needs fifty pounds for an operation.

Published by Juventus in 1981, number one in the series Drama Workshop. ISBN 9780907996798.

Also published in Eleven One-act Plays by Juta.

Published in Play Spectrum (ed H. Houghton-Hawksley, pub David Philip, 1986).

Performance history in South Africa

1969: The play was first performed in Grahamstown in 1969 under the direction of Rosalie van der Gucht.

The Last Voyage is a play by Tandi Buchan

Performance history in South Africa

2019: Presented by Waterfront Theatre School at The Galloway Theatre from 24 to 28 September 2019, directed by Tandi Buchan, with Thinus Viljoen, Lizaan Pelser, Mika Calitz.

Sources

Various entries in the NELM catalogue.

https://weekendspecial.co.za/the-last-voyage-waterfront-theatre-school-review/

Gosher, 1988.

SACat, a union catalogue of items held by Southern African libraries.

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