Alan Paton - Revision history

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	A TV series, ''[[The Principal]]'', loosely based on Paton's time as warden at Diepkloof Reformatory was produced and aired on [[SABC]] in 1997. It was written and directed by [[Roy Sargeant]].		A TV series, ''[[The Principal]]'', loosely based on Paton's time as warden at Diepkloof Reformatory was produced and aired on [[SABC]] in 1997. It was written and directed by [[Roy Sargeant]].
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		+	'''For more information, see ''[[The Principal]]''.'''

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	* ''[[Man and Poet]]'' (for the Inaugural Festival of the [[1820 Settlers National Monument]], 1974).		* ''[[Man and Poet]]'' (for the Inaugural Festival of the [[1820 Settlers National Monument]], 1974).
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		+	A TV series, ''[[The Principal]]'', loosely based on Paton's time as warden at Diepkloof Reformatory was produced and aired on [[SABC]] in 1997. It was written and directed by [[Roy Sargeant]].

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 The Patons regularly invited friends from all races to their home in Kloof (a suburb of Durban) and during these large and lively social gatherings, satirical poems were often recited and impromptu plays performed.
-He also worked on a number of other theatrical projects, including:
+He also wrote a number of theatrical works, including:
 * ''[[Louis Botha]]'' (play in five acts, 1932, revised 1935)

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 His novel ''[[Cry, the Beloved Country]]'' (1948) became an internationally acclaimed work, and has been adapted to stage and screen a number of times under its original title, but also as a musical titled ''[[Lost in the Stars]]'' (by Maxwell Anderson with music by Kurt Weill, 1949).
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 Paton's second novel ''[[Too Late the Phalarope]]'' also joined the best-seller lists, and it too, has been dramatised (by Robert Yale Libott) and the play produced on Broadway in 1956.
 The Patons regularly invited friends from all races to their home in Kloof (a suburb of Durban) and during these large and lively social gatherings, satirical poems were often recited and impromptu plays performed.

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 * ''[[A Light Comedy]]'' (one-act play, 1949)
-* ''[[Last Journey]]'' (a play, 1959, produced in Lusaka to mark the opening of the new Inter-racial theatre)
+* ''[[Last Journey]]'' (a play about David Livingstone, 1959, produced in Lusaka to mark the opening of the new Inter-racial theatre)
 * ''[[Mkhumbane]]'' (a musical, with [[Todd Matshikiza]], 1960)
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 * ''[[Sponono]]'' (with [[Krishna Shah]], 1962).
-* ''[[David Livingstone]]'' (play)
+* ''[[David Livingstone]]'' (play). This is a completely new play text, incorporating only minor sections from 1959 original.
 * ''[[Man and Poet]]'' (for the Inaugural Festival of the [[1820 Settlers National Monument]], 1974).

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 He was born in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu Natal on 11 January 1903.
-An educationalist by profession, Alan Paton was Principal of the Diepkloof Reformatory in Johannesburg before his retirement.
+An educationalist by profession, in 1935 Alan Paton became principal of the Diepkloof Reformatory for black offenders in Johannesburg.
 Paton leapt to international fame with the publication of his first novel, the brilliant "Cry the Beloved Country" in 1948. The novel has been translated many times and has been filmed twice.

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	Paton's second novel ''[[Too Late the Phalarope]]'' also joined the best-seller lists, and it too, has been dramatised (by Robert Yale Libott) and the play produced on Broadway in 1956.		Paton's second novel ''[[Too Late the Phalarope]]'' also joined the best-seller lists, and it too, has been dramatised (by Robert Yale Libott) and the play produced on Broadway in 1956.

		+	The Patons regularly invited friends from all races to their home in Kloof (a suburb of Durban) and during these large and lively social gatherings, satirical poems were often recited and impromptu plays performed.
	He also worked on a number of other theatrical projects, including:		He also worked on a number of other theatrical projects, including:

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	https://www.flatinternational.org/template_volume.php?volume_id=158		https://www.flatinternational.org/template_volume.php?volume_id=158
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		+	Hermann Wittenberg. 2007. Alan Paton’s writing for the stage: towards a non-racial South African theatre. ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', 1: 307-327.

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