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''Kommapunt'' by [[Dianne du Toit Albertze]] (19**-) and company

''Kommapunt'' ("Semicolon") is an [[Afrikaans]] devised piece about depression, assembled from poems and prose that the participants wrote about their own experience of it. It is performed without costumes, make-up or set dressing beyond a cluttered student flat, the company seated in a circle reading their writing aloud and encouraging one another to speak; the audience is drawn into that circle.

== The original text ==

The piece grew out of a WhatsApp group that [[Dianne du Toit Albertze]] convened as a second-year drama student at [[Stellenbosch University]] while struggling with depression. Nine writers contributed, students together with one school pupil, and the material was put together informally; the author has likened the assembly to a patchwork quilt. It was entered for the 2017 [[Woordfees|US Woordfees]] at the last minute. For the 2018 festival the text was rewritten entirely. No published text has been traced*.

== Translations and adaptations ==

None traced*.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

2017: First staged at the [[Woordfees|US Woordfees]], Stellenbosch*, with the company performing in a circle formed around the audience. The company of ''Kommapunt'' received the [[Woordtrofees|Woordtrofee]] for best newcomers.

2018: Restaged at the [[Woordfees|US Woordfees]] at the festival's invitation, with a wholly rewritten text and a company of five.

== Sources ==

'Kommapunt oor depressie', ''Klyntji'', 16 March 2018.

'US WoordTROfees 2017: Teater en musiek', ''[[LitNet]]'', 2017.

'Kommapunt by die US Woordfees - 'n onderhoud', ''[[LitNet]]'', 6 February 2017.

Griebenow, Marina. 2025. 'Ons change die narrative van Namakwaland', ''INK'' (Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees), 16 October 2025.

Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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