Vlerkdans
Vlerkdans ("Wing Dance") is the name of an award-winning Afrikaans youth novel by Barrie Hough as well as that of two stage adaptations.
Contents
The novel
The novel was prescribed nationally at high schools in South Africa.
Translations and adaptations
Stage adaptation by Lizz Meiring (1999)
Stage adaptation by Kobus Strydom
Performance history in South Africa
1999: The Meiring adaptation staged in March 1999 in the Momentum Theatre at the State Theatre, directed by Lizz Meiring, with Wikus du Toit, Francois Henning, Annalise Bosch, Isadora Verwey, Karen Wessels, Greg Melvill-Smith and Jeanine Cordani. The same production was staged at Aardklop (1999).
1999: The Meiring adaptation staged in October 1999 in the Tesson Theatre at the Civic Theatre, directed by Lizz Meiring, with Wikus du Toit, Francois Henning, Annalise Bosch, Isadora Verwey, Karen Wessels, Paul Lückhoff and Jeanine Cordani.
Sources
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