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by [[Gladys Thomas]]. A series of 21 vignettes of the life of the “coloured people” of the [[Cape Flats]], set in a block of Council Flats named Avalon Court (after the old [[Avalon cinema]] in [[District Six]]) and takes place between about 1978 and 1980. There are 23 characters in the piece. The text won the 1990 [[Betrams V.O. Literary Award]] and was published by [[Skotaville Publishers]] in 1992.  

Directed by [[Greg Philander]] for Caydo at the [[National Arts Festival]] Fringe, 1999.


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