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''[[Skrapnel]]'' ("Shrapnel") is the name of two [[Afrikaans]] plays.

=''[[Skrapnel]]'' by [[Hannes Spangenberg]] (2008)=

==The original text==

A physical theatre piece containing 9 characters bearing metaphoric names like "Kenner", "Nuwe", "Diener", "Orde", "Chaos", etc.

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

==Sources==

Prompt copy (including a programme) and Stage Manager's file for a text called ''[[Skrapnel]]'' by [[Hannes Spangenberg]], found in the archives of the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] in 2022.

A CD copy (marked "Skrapnel" and "original") of the music for the show, seemingly recorded 1 January 1995.

=''[[Skrapnel]]'' by [[Willem Anker]] (2009)=

== The original text ==

A play about two young South Africans in London: a girls working as a carer for old people and a man working as a security guard at a shopping centre. They meet in a youth hostel and become involved. On 7 Jul7 2005 the man dies in a suicide bombing in the London Underground. The play begins shortly after the attack, and their story is told in flashbacks, that include insights into the religiuous fundamentalism of the yough Moslem suicide bomber, and the unfocussed and uncertain lives of the two young South Africans regarding identity, beliefand culture. 

The play was first performed in Potchefstroom in 2009 and published by [[Protea Boekhuis]] in 2011.

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

2009: First presented at the [[Aardklop]] festival in Potchefstroom, directed and designed by [[Jaco Bouwer]], with lighting design by [[Michael Maxwell]] and sound design by [[Braam du Toit]]. The cast consisted of [[Marcel van Heerden]], [[Andrew Thompson]] and [[Jenine Groenewald]]. 

2010: The same production was presented at the ''[[Woordfees]]'' in Stellenbosch on 4 and 6 March and at the [[National Arts Festival]] in July.  

2019: Performed by [[VNA Productions]] for the [[South African State Theatre]]'s school set works program.

== Sources ==

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27759376-skrapnel

''[[Weekend Post]]'' 20 June 2010.

https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.4314/tvl.v49i1.27

http://news.artsmart.co.za/2010/06/naf-skrapnel.html

http://stellenboschwriters.com/trofees.pdf

The stage manager [[Naomi Slabber]]'s prompt copy for a teks called ''[[Skrapnel]]'',  found in the archives of the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] in 2022. 


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