Voor Dit Gebeur
Voor Dit Gebeur ("Before it happens ") is a one-act play with music by Peter Snyders.
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The original text
Written in “Kaaps”, or "Cape Afrikaans", it is a play about municipal workers and the effect on them of finding an abandoned baby in a drain.
The text unpublished.
Translations and adaptations
The text later expanded to become the full-length play called Die Drein.
Performance history in South Africa
1975: First performed in the Joseph Stone Auditorium by the Belhar Amateur Dramavereniging
1977: Performed by Unison Players
Sources
Bound copy of the typed text of Voor Dit Gebeur, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022, and 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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