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''[[The Red Velvet Goat]]'' is a folk play written by Mexican-born Anglo-American playwright and novelist Josephina Niggli (1910–1983; birth name was Josephine) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefina_Niggli].

== Original Text ==
Published 1939.

Also published in ''Folk dramas, written by dramatic art students at the University of North Carolina'' by University of North Carolina Press, 1949.

== Translations and adaptations ==
Translated into [[Afrikaans]], entitled ''[[Die Rooi Ferweeljas]]''. Published by [[DALRO]], 1969. The Afrikaans title translated back into English would be ''The Red Velvet Coat'' instead of ''The Red Velvet Goat''. 

== Performance history in South Africa ==
1946: Presented by the [[University of Cape Town]] Speech and Drama Department and produced by [[Rosalie van der Gucht]] in the [[Little Theatre]], September 1946. The cast: [[Joyce Pienaar]], [[Leonard Schach]], [[Dorothy Copelowitz]], [[Ashne Kretzmar]]. Set by [[W.G. Glennie]].

1976: Performed in [[Afrikaans]] by the [[Ceres Amateur Toneelvereniging]] for the [[Department of Education and Culture in the House of Representatives's Drama festival]] in Stellenbosch, 1976. The group came second. 

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== Sources ==
Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josefina_Niggli].

''[[South African Opinion]]'', 3(9):30, 1946. 

''[[Trek]]'', 11(7):23, 1946. 

[[ESAT Bibliography I|Inskip]], 1972. p.132.

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