Vanweë die Gedagte

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Vanweë die Gedagte ("Because of the thought") is a one-act play by Ralston Oliphant (1983-).

The original text

Written as part of a playwriting course in the Drama Department at Stellenbosch University, it set on a station platform and takes the form of conversations between various characters waitung for the train to Stellenbosch. The various conversations shed light on the lives of "coloured" people after the new dispensation of 1994.

The text is unpublished. A copy of the typed text found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

The text of the typed text of Hy Is Ons Herder, held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch.

https://www.bluestarsa.co.za/clips/artists/690/ralston-oliphant-cv.pdf

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