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 * ''[[The Black Crow]]'', a one-act play adaptation of Bosman’s story ''Cometh Comet'' by [[Peter Holman]].
-* ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (three versions: a text by [[Stephen Gray]], first directed by [[Barney Simon]] for the [[Baxter Theatre]], 1980) ; a radio-drama version by [[Cecil Jubber]] starring [[[[Gabriel Bayman]], [[SABC]], 1980; and [[Patrick Mynhardt]]'s own one-man stage adaptation.
+* ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (three versions: a text by [[Stephen Gray]], first directed by [[Barney Simon]] for the [[Baxter Theatre]], 1980) ; a radio-drama version by [[Cecil Jubber]] starring [[Gabriel Bayman]], [[SABC]], 1980; and [[Patrick Mynhardt]]'s own one-man stage adaptation.
 * ''[[Marico Moonshine and Mampoer]]'', inspired by certain Bosman stories, was directed by [[Janice Honeyman]] and [[Barney Simon]] at the [[Market Theatre]], 1981.

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 * ''[[The Black Crow]]'', a one-act play adaptation of Bosman’s story ''Cometh Comet'' by [[Peter Holman]].
-* ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (text by [[Stephen Gray]], first directed by [[Barney Simon]] for the [[Baxter Theatre]], 1980) ; and [[Patrick Mynhardt]]'s own one-man stage adaptation.
+* ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (three versions: a text by [[Stephen Gray]], first directed by [[Barney Simon]] for the [[Baxter Theatre]], 1980) ; a radio-drama version by [[Cecil Jubber]] starring [[[[Gabriel Bayman]], [[SABC]], 1980; and [[Patrick Mynhardt]]'s own one-man stage adaptation.
 * ''[[Marico Moonshine and Mampoer]]'', inspired by certain Bosman stories, was directed by [[Janice Honeyman]] and [[Barney Simon]] at the [[Market Theatre]], 1981.

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 * ''[[Marico Moonshine and Mampoer]]'', inspired by certain Bosman stories, was directed by [[Janice Honeyman]] and [[Barney Simon]] at the [[Market Theatre]], 1981.
-* ''[[The Picture of Gysbert Jonker]]'', a film version of the Bosman story of the same name (itself a version of Oscar Wilde’s ''The Picture of Dorian Gray''), starring [[Jana Cilliers]] and [[Ryno Hattingh]], with a screenplay by [[Andre P. Brink]], 1982.
+* ''[[The Picture of Gysbert Jonker]]'', a TV film version of the Bosman story of the same name (itself a version of Oscar Wilde’s ''The Picture of Dorian Gray''), starring [[Jana Cilliers]] and [[Ryno Hattingh]], with a screenplay by [[Andre P. Brink]], 1982.
 * ''[[The Storyteller]]'', starring [[Roger Dwyer]] as Bosman at the [[Natal Playhouse]], 1985.
 * ''[[A Touch of Madness]]'', a biographical one-man play exploring the life of [[Herman Charles Bosman]], devised by [[Nicky Rebelo]] (1999).
 * ''[[Bosman's Patriots]]'', a play by [[Tim Sandham]] and [[Angus Douglas]], exploring the life and works of [[Herman Charles Bosman]] (2014).

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 * ''[[Marico Moonshine and Mampoer]]'', inspired by certain Bosman stories, was directed by [[Janice Honeyman]] and [[Barney Simon]] at the [[Market Theatre]], 1981.
-* ''[[The Picture of Gysbert Jonker]]'', a film version of the story of the same name, starring [[Jana Cilliers]] and [[Ryno Hattingh]], with a screenplay by [[Andre P. Brink]].
+* ''[[The Picture of Gysbert Jonker]]'', a film version of the Bosman story of the same name (itself a version of Oscar Wilde’s ''The Picture of Dorian Gray''), starring [[Jana Cilliers]] and [[Ryno Hattingh]], with a screenplay by [[Andre P. Brink]], 1982.
 * ''[[The Storyteller]]'', starring [[Roger Dwyer]] as Bosman at the [[Natal Playhouse]], 1985.

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 * ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (text by [[Stephen Gray]], first directed by [[Barney Simon]] for the [[Baxter Theatre]], 1980) ; and [[Patrick Mynhardt]]'s own one-man stage adaptation.
-* ''[[Marico Moonshine and Mampoer]]'', inspired by certain Bosman stories, was directed by [[Janice Honeyman]] and [[Barney Simon]] at the [[Market Theatre]]
+* ''[[Marico Moonshine and Mampoer]]'', inspired by certain Bosman stories, was directed by [[Janice Honeyman]] and [[Barney Simon]] at the [[Market Theatre]], 1981.
 * ''[[The Storyteller]]'', starring [[Roger Dwyer]] as Bosman at the [[Natal Playhouse]], 1985.

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	Other dramatizations of his works and life include:		Other dramatizations of his works and life include:
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		+	* ''[[The Black Crow]]'', a one-act play adaptation of Bosman’s story ''Cometh Comet'' by [[Peter Holman]].

	* ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (text by [[Stephen Gray]], first directed by [[Barney Simon]] for the [[Baxter Theatre]], 1980) ; and [[Patrick Mynhardt]]'s own one-man stage adaptation.		* ''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (text by [[Stephen Gray]], first directed by [[Barney Simon]] for the [[Baxter Theatre]], 1980) ; and [[Patrick Mynhardt]]'s own one-man stage adaptation.

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	Mynhardt, P. 2005. ''Celebrating Bosman''. Wits University Press.		Mynhardt, P. 2005. ''Celebrating Bosman''. Wits University Press.
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		+	Gray, S. 2005. ''Life Sentence. A biography of Herman Charles Bosman''. Human & Rousseau.

	Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]		Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

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 == Adaptations of other writing ==
-A number of Bosman's works have been dramatised, notably of course the popular "[[Oom Schalk Lourens]]" series of short stories done as  one-man shows by [[Patrick Mynhardt]]: beginning with ''[[A Sip of Jerepigo]]'' (1969);  ''[[More Jerepigo]]'', (1973); ''[[Just Jerepigo|Just Jerepigo, or A Sundowner with Oom Schalk]]'' (19??); ''[[Another Sip of Jerepigo]]'' (1989); and ''[[Tjeerio Jerepigo]]'' (2003). Other performers who have done these stories include [[Percy Sieff]], [[David Muller]] and [[Paul Luckhoff]] (''[[Oom Schalk Lourens Se Mampoerstories]]'', 2015)
+A number of Bosman's works have been dramatised, notably of course the popular "[[Oom Schalk Lourens]]" series of short stories done as  one-man shows by [[Patrick Mynhardt]]: beginning with ''[[A Sip of Jerepigo]]'' (1969);  ''[[More Jerepigo]]'', (1973); ''[[Just Jerepigo|Just Jerepigo, or A Sundowner with Oom Schalk]]'' (19??); ''[[Another Sip of Jerepigo]]'' (1989); and ''[[Tjeerio Jerepigo]]'' (2003). Other performers who have done these stories include [[Percy Sieff]] (''[[Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy]]'', 1969), [[David Muller]] and [[Paul Luckhoff]] (''[[Oom Schalk Lourens Se Mampoerstories]]'', 2015)
 Other dramatizations of his works and life include: