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 == Sources ==
-A carbon copy of an untitled and uncredited typed play text (found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2020), with a handwritten title (''[['n Vaste Burg]]'') and the name [[T. Pohl]] written on it in pencil.
+A carbon copy of an untitled and uncredited typed play text (found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2020), with a handwritten title (''[['n Vaste Burg]]'') and the name [[T. Pohl]] written on it in pencil. Now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]]  ([[PARC]])  at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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 The text appears to have been used by two people, judging by the pencil handwriting, since two casts appear to have been used with one ort two exceptions. Probably for  radio performances of the play. Besides Pohl's name, the text bears only two full names of performers [[Johan Schoeman]] (as Koos Basson"), [[Gerrit van der Merwe]] (as "Hendrik Willemse"), with only first or last names given for the other characters.
-The title is taken from ''‘n Vaste Burg is onse God'',  Martin Luther's famous rendition of Psalm 46 and deals with loss and faith. Set in the dining room of a [[Boer]] family's home in a South African rural community sometime towards the end of the 19th century.
+The title is taken from the hymn '''n Vaste Burg is onse God'' ( “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”),  Martin Luther's famous rendition of Psalm 46, and deals with tragic loss and faith. Set in the dining room of a [[Boer]] family's home in a South African rural community sometime towards the end of the 19th century.
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 The text appears to have been used by two people, judging by the pencil handwriting, since two casts appear to have been used with one ort two exceptions. Probably for  radio performances of the play. Besides Pohl's name, the text bears only two full names of performers [[Johan Schoeman]] (as Koos Basson"), [[Gerrit van der Merwe]] (as "Hendrik Willemse"), with only first or last names given for the other characters.
-The play is set in the dining room of a [[Boer]] family's home in a South African rural community sometime towards the end of the 19th century.
+The title is taken from ''‘n Vaste Burg is onse God'',  Martin Luther's famous rendition of Psalm 46 and deals with loss and faith. Set in the dining room of a [[Boer]] family's home in a South African rural community sometime towards the end of the 19th century.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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		+	A carbon copy of an untitled and uncredited typed play text (found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2020), with a handwritten title (''[['n Vaste Burg]]'') and the name [[T. Pohl]] written on it in pencil.

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	What appears to be a carbon copy of an untitled and uncredited typed play text (found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2020), has a handwritten title (''[['n Vaste Burg]]'') and the name [[T. Pohl]] written in pencil in it. Probably the owner (actress/director/stage manager and/or author?) of it, the text also lists a few actors in the same pencil handwriting. The name [[T. Pohl]] suggests this must date from her early period in Stellenbosch and Cape Town.		What appears to be a carbon copy of an untitled and uncredited typed play text (found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2020), has a handwritten title (''[['n Vaste Burg]]'') and the name [[T. Pohl]] written in pencil in it. Probably the owner (actress/director/stage manager and/or author?) of it, the text also lists a few actors in the same pencil handwriting. The name [[T. Pohl]] suggests this must date from her early period in Stellenbosch and Cape Town.
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		+	The text appears to have been used by two people, judging by the pencil handwriting, since two casts appear to have been used with one ort two exceptions. Probably for radio performances of the play. Besides Pohl's name, the text bears only two full names of performers [[Johan Schoeman]] (as Koos Basson"), [[Gerrit van der Merwe]] (as "Hendrik Willemse"), with only first or last names given for the other characters.

	The play is set in the dining room of a [[Boer]] family's home in a South African rural community sometime towards the end of the 19th century.		The play is set in the dining room of a [[Boer]] family's home in a South African rural community sometime towards the end of the 19th century.

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 What appears to be a carbon copy of an untitled and uncredited typed play text (found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2020), has a handwritten title (''[['n Vaste Burg]]'') and the name [[T. Pohl]] written in pencil in it. Probably the owner (actress/director/stage manager and/or author?) of it, the text also lists a few actors in the same pencil handwriting. The name [[T. Pohl]] suggests this must date from her early period in Stellenbosch and Cape Town.
-The play is set in a [[Boer]] family's home in a South African rural community sometime in the 1880s.
+The play is set in the dining room of a [[Boer]] family's home in a South African rural community sometime towards the end of the 19th century.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ==The original text==
-What appears to be a carbon copy of an untitled and uncredited typed play text (found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2020), has a handwritten title (''[['n Vaste burg]]'') and the name [[T. Pohl]] written in pencil in it. Probably the owner (actress/director/stage manager and/or author?) of it, the text also lists a few actors in the same pencil handwriting. The name [[T. Pohl]] suggests this must date from her early period in Stellenbosch and Cape Town.
+What appears to be a carbon copy of an untitled and uncredited typed play text (found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] archives in 2020), has a handwritten title (''[['n Vaste Burg]]'') and the name [[T. Pohl]] written in pencil in it. Probably the owner (actress/director/stage manager and/or author?) of it, the text also lists a few actors in the same pencil handwriting. The name [[T. Pohl]] suggests this must date from her early period in Stellenbosch and Cape Town.
 The play is set in a [[Boer]] family's home in a South African rural community sometime in the 1880s.