Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy
There are at least two productions based on the works by Herman Charles Bosman with this title including the one-man show by Percy Sieff and a musical version by Janie de Bruin and music by Derek de Bruin. Musical. Cast: mixed.
Original text
Adapted from the writing of Herman Charles Bosman. Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy is the title of a short story from Bosman’s collection of stories, Mafeking Road.
Performance history in South Africa
1969: Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy: An evening of Herman Charles Bosman, devised and presented by Percy Sieff. Directed by Limpie Basson. Little Theatre, Cape Town, 29 January 1969. The first part of this one-man show is devoted to biography, to essays and sketches from A Cask of Jerepigo and Cold Stone Jug.
Sources
Teater SA, 1(3), 1969.
Gray, S. 2005. Life Sentence. A biography of Herman Charles Bosman. Human & Rousseau.
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