Tuis Bes
Tuis Bes is the Afrikaans title of an unnamed English play and uncredited author.
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The original text
A play about the Spoworth family, set in a parlour behind Spoworths' general store off Jamaica Road in London.
Translations and adaptations
Translated by an unnamed author from a [as yet] unknown English source into Afrikaans as Tuis Bes ("home [is] best").
A copy of a typed text of the Afrikaans version, found in the Drama Department archives of Stellenbosch University in 2022, has the dialogue in Afrikaans but the stage directions in the original English.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1981(?): Possibly performed in Afrikaans by the Stellenbosch Drama Department.
Sources
A copy of a typed text of the Afrikaans version, found in the Drama Department archives of Stellenbosch University in 2022.
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