The Price of Perfection
The Price of Perfection is a lyrical one-act play by Sheila Buckley (fl. 1950s)[1].
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The original text
A play about an ancient and magical garden belonging to a Chinese clockmaker, where love and sacrifice, sadness and joy intermingle.
Published in The best one-act plays of 1950-51 as selected by J.W. Marriott (1884-1953). First published in London by Harrap in 1952.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Ou Sjinese Legende ("Old Chinese legend") by Lourens Fourie in the 1967.
Performance history in South Africa
1967: Performed as part of a programme of plays called Drama Drie ("Drama Three") and presented in the Aula on the University of Pretoria campus on 29 and 30 September. Directed by Anna Neethling-Pohl and performed by the first batch of third year students produced by the Instituut vir Spraak en Spelkuns and the Departement Dramatologie at the University. The cast included Neels Coetzee, Sandra Prinsloo, George Ballot, Laurens Cilliers, Johann Botha, Anna-Marie Neethling, Elise Botha, Elmarie Grant, Esmerelda van Biljon, Gerrie Nel, Lianda Martin, C. Coetzee, Yandamé Erwee, Elizabeth Guillum-Scott, Rika Kleynhans, Gail Schaefer, Tienie Grobler, Ida Visser, Kotie Steyn, Elba Prinsloo, Ellie Scheepers and Rhona Goldblum.
Sources
https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/1784879.Sheila_Buckley
The National Library of New Zealand catalogue[2]
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234835567550
George Ballot scrapbooks. (Provisionally held in the ESAT Archive, with the kind permission of Prof Muller Ballot[3] and consulted 2024-1925).
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