Traveler in the Dark
Traveler in the Dark is a play by Marsha Norman (1947-)[1].
Contents
The original text
Sam is a brilliant surgeon whose absolute faith in medical science is shaken when he discovers that he cannot save the woman he loves from cancer. As a result, he orders his wife and precocious son to his boyhood home to cope with the crisis. There, by an old garden wall filled with his childhood toys, Sam tries to both reason his son out of fairy tales and the Bible and to confront his father, a fundamentalist preacher, with his loss of faith.[2]
Published by NY Theatre Communications Group in 1984 and in paperback by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. in 1988 and 1998.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
No reference to a South African performance yet found, though a photocopy of the original published text was found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department's theatre archives and is now held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_Norman
https://search.library.ucla.edu/discovery/fulldisplay/alma9925390083606533/01UCS_LAL:UCLA
https://americanrepertorytheater.org/shows-events/traveler-in-the-dark/
Dan Sullivan. 1985. "Stage Review: Traveler in the Dark at Taper", Los Angles Times 25 January.[3]
A photocopy of the published text held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, Stellenbosch.
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