Cry, the Beloved Country - Revision history

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 Filmed in 1995 as a South African-American project, directed by [[Darrell Roodt]], with James Earl Jones and Richard Harris.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country_(1995_film)]
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 : A stage adaptation was performed by the [[Capital Players]] theatre group at the Moth Hall in Gaborone, Botswana.

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 ''[[Lost in the Stars]]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_Stars] is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Anderson] and music by Kurt Weill (1900-1950)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill], based on the novel. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1949. An extract of the play was published in the anthology ''[[ Reef of Time: Johannesburg in Writing]]'' edited by [[Digby Ricci]], 1986.
-''[[Cry, the Beloved Country]]'' was adapted for the stage under its original title by Felicia Komai in 1954.
+''[[Cry, the Beloved Country]]'' was adapted for the stage under its original title as a verse drama by Felicia Komai with the collaboration of Josephine Douglas in 1954.
 In 1983 the novel was adapted for performance as a stage play in Botswana.

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	''[[Lost in the Stars]]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_Stars] is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Anderson] and music by Kurt Weill (1900-1950)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill], based on the novel. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1949. An extract of the play was published in the anthology ''[[ Reef of Time: Johannesburg in Writing]]'' edited by [[Digby Ricci]], 1986.		''[[Lost in the Stars]]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_the_Stars] is a musical with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell_Anderson] and music by Kurt Weill (1900-1950)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weill], based on the novel. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1949. An extract of the play was published in the anthology ''[[ Reef of Time: Johannesburg in Writing]]'' edited by [[Digby Ricci]], 1986.
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		+	''[[Cry, the Beloved Country]]'' was adapted for the stage under its original title by Felicia Komai in 1954.

	In 1983 the novel was adapted for performance as a stage play in Botswana.		In 1983 the novel was adapted for performance as a stage play in Botswana.

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 == The original text ==
-''Cry, the Beloved Country'' is a 1948 novel by South African author [[Alan Stewart Paton|Alan Paton]].
+''Cry, the Beloved Country'' is a 1948 novel by South African author [[Alan Paton]].
 The main theme of the novel, set in 1946, is summarised in [[Wikipedia]][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country]: ''... a social protest against the structures of the society that would later give rise to apartheid. Paton attempts to create an unbiased and objective view of the dichotomies this entails: he depicts the Whites as affected by 'native crime', while the Blacks suffer from social instability and moral issues due to the breakdown of the tribal system. It shows many of the problems with South Africa such as the degrading of the land reserved for the natives, which is sometimes considered to be the main theme, the disintegration of the tribal community, native crime, and the flight to the urban areas.'' .

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−	''[[Cry, the Beloved Country]]'' is a novel by [[Alan Paton]].	+	''[[Cry, the Beloved Country]]'' is a novel by [[Alan Stewart Paton\|Alan Paton]].

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 : A stage adaptation was performed by the [[Capital Players]] theatre group at the Moth Hall in Gaborone, Botswana.
-: First staged at the [[Grahamstown Festival]] in 2003, directed by [[Heinrich Reisenhofer]], with [[Joko Scott]], [[David Muller]], [[Matthew Wild]], [[Morena Medi]], [[Wiseman Sithole]], [[Chris Gxalaba]], [[Adrienne Pearce]], [[Leon Liebenberg]], [[Johann Vermaak]], [[Nhlanhla Mavundla]], [[Roger Dwyer]] and others. The same production was subsequently staged in the [[Artscape Theatre Centre]] in Cape Town, at [[MACUFE]] 2003, in the [[Playhouse Theatre]] in Durban and in April 2004 at the [[KKNK]] in Oudtshoorn. Designed by [[Peter Cazalet]].
+: The [[Roy Sargeant]] play was first staged at the [[Grahamstown Festival]], directed by [[Heinrich Reisenhofer]], with [[Joko Scott]], [[David Muller]], [[Matthew Wild]], [[Morena Medi]], [[Wiseman Sithole]], [[Chris Gxalaba]], [[Adrienne Pearce]], [[Leon Liebenberg]], [[Johann Vermaak]], [[Nhlanhla Mavundla]], [[Roger Dwyer]] and others. Designed by [[Peter Cazalet]].
 == Sources ==

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 == Sources ==
-Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country]
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country
 ''[[Die Burger]]'', 10 July 2003.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country_(1951_film)
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country_(1995_film)