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("''Letters to a Red Roof''"). A 2001 one-woman play written by [[Harry Kalmer]]. Winner of the Anglo Gold Smeltkroes Prize.

== Subject ==
Mathilda Otto (73) is alone and has nobody to speak to and therefore she writes letters to the only thing she can see outside her bedroom window, the red roof of the next door neighbour's house. It becomes an ode to her life in Johannesburg. 

==Translations and adaptations==
Filmed for television as part of the series ''Van die Verhoog Af'' produced by [[Frank Opperman]] for broadcast on the KYKnet channel in 2005 starring [[Trix Pienaar]]. (''Die Burger'' 8 July 2005).

== Performance history in South Africa ==
Premiered at [[Aardklop]] in 2001, directed by [[Harry Kalmer]], with [[Henrietta Gryffenberg|Henriëtta Gryffenberg]].

Staged at the [[KKNK]] 2002, and later in the [[State Theatre]] and the [[Wynand Mouton Theatre]] in Bloemfontein, directed by [[Harry Kalmer]], with [[Elize Cawood]].

== Sources ==
Aardklop Festival programme, 2001

''The Star'', 5 October 2001.

''The Argus'', 10 April 2002.

''The Star'', 30 July 2002

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