Voices
Voices is a play by Susan Griffin (1943-)[1].
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The original text
Subtitled "A Play for Women", it it is a verse play about the lives of five women, each is facing some crisis in life. They don't know one another, nor speak to each other, but tell their life stories to the audience. It opened to great audience acclaim in New York City.
Voices won an Emmy Award for a local PBS production in 1975.
The playtext was published as Voices: A Play for Women by Samuel French in 1979.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Stemme by F.J. le Roux in 1980.
Performance history in South Africa
1980: Stemme was performed by Universiteitsteater Stellenbosch in a double bill with Dameshandwerk in the H.B. Thom Theatre in April, directed by Herman Pretorius.
Sources
https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Play-Women-Susan-Griffin/dp/0573630151
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/susan-griffin
A typed copy of the Le Roux Afrikaans translation found in the archives of the Drama Department of Stellenbosch University. 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.
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