My Plaas se Naam is Vergenoeg - Revision history

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 == Critical response ==
-The play has attracted more scholarly attention than any other Weideman drama. [[Susan Meyer]] reads it as a postcolonial and ecocritical intervention in the South African land debate, arguing that the animals' claim gives the ownership controversy a dimension absent from novels such as ''Agaat'' and ''Disgrace'' (Meyer 2012). [[Hennie van Coller]] and [[Anthea van Jaarsveld]] treat it in their two-part study of Weideman as dramatist (2007, 2008), and it is discussed at length in [[Christina Maria Beuke-Muir]]'s doctoral study of his dramatic work.
+[[Susan Meyer]] reads it as a postcolonial and ecocritical intervention in the South African land debate, arguing that the animals' claim gives the ownership controversy a dimension absent from novels such as ''Agaat'' and ''Disgrace'' (Meyer 2012). [[Hennie van Coller]] and [[Anthea van Jaarsveld]] treat it in their two-part study of Weideman as dramatist (2007, 2008), and it is discussed at length in [[Christina Maria Beuke-Muir]]'s doctoral study of his dramatic work.
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-''[[My Plaas se Naam is Vergenoeg]]'' is a play by [[George Weideman]] (1947-2008).
+''My Plaas se Naam is Vergenoeg'' by [[George Weideman]] (1947-2008)
-Sometimes referred to simply as '''''[[Vergenoeg]]'''''.
+''My Plaas se Naam is Vergenoeg'' ("My farm's name is Vergenoeg", i.e. "far enough"), also cited in the press and in scholarship simply as ''Vergenoeg'', is an [[Afrikaans]] South African play in nine scenes, set in Namaqualand during the era of the land commission hearings. A commission sits to decide whether Grace Boois, a former farm worker, may bury her son on the Veldsman family's farm Vergenoeg; a chorus of animals comments on the proceedings and on human possessiveness, and between the human and animal worlds moves the shape-shifter Altydanders, child of Tsoei-Goab.
 == The original text ==
-The play was written in 2003, and was the first overall winner of the [[Sanlam-prys vir Afrikaanse Teater]] in 2004 when performed by the [[University of Stellenbosch]].
+Written by [[George Weideman]], and the only one of his stage plays to be published: ''My plaas se naam is Vergenoeg. Drama in nege tonele'' (Dainfern: Praag, 2005).
-Published by [[Praag Uitgewers]], 2005.
+Grace Boois had left the farm with her child seven years earlier. Her son, Whitey, was the illegitimate child of the farm owner's brother, and died in a veld fire. The question of who owns Vergenoeg is put in competing terms: the San laid out stones to mark the land as theirs, the farmer bought it, and the animals contend that their claim precedes both. Against the Boois family's claim to ancestral presence, Jan Veldsman argues that a burial would give strangers a moral hold on the farm.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Presented by the [[Universiteit van Stellenbosch Drama Departement|U.S. Drama]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]], directed by [[Johan Esterhuizen]], starring [[Riaan Visman]], [[Ralston Oliphant]] and others.
+: Premiered at the [[Volksblad Kunstefees]], Bloemfontein, produced by the [[University of Stellenbosch Drama Department]] and directed by [[Johan Esterhuizen]]. [[Jackie van den Heever]] played Grace Boois, and the cast included [[Riaan Visman]].
-: Presented by the [[Universiteit van Stellenbosch Drama Departement|U.S. Drama]] at the ''[[Volksbladfees]]'' in Bloemfontein, directed by [[Johan Esterhuizen]], starring [[Riaan Visman]], [[Ralston Oliphant]] and others.
+== Critical response ==
 == Sources ==
-[[Stellenbosch University]] Library catalogue.
+Weideman, G. 2005. ''My plaas se naam is Vergenoeg. Drama in nege tonele''. Dainfern: Praag.
-Review of the production (2004) by [[Braam Muller]], ''[[Volksblad]]'', 16 July 2004.
+Meyer, S. 2012. 'We who cannot speak lived there first: A new claim to land in ''My plaas se naam is Vergenoeg'' by George Weideman', ''Tydskrif vir Letterkunde'' 49(2): pp. 34-50.
-Review of the published text by [[Johan Coetser]], ''[[Beeld]]'', 20 February 2006.
+Van Coller, H. & Van Jaarsveld, A. 2007. 'Vergenoeg: George Weideman as dramaturg (deel 1)', ''South African Theatre Journal'' 21(1): pp. 328-342.
-[[Hennie van Coller]]. 2008. "Vergenoeg: George Weideman as dramaturg (Deel 2), ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', Volume 22: pp150-165.
+Beuke-Muir, C.M. ''n Ondersoek na George Weideman as dramaturg''. Doctoral thesis, [[University of the Free State]].*
-Copy of the text (on a computer disc) found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and 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.
+Botha, D. 2004. "'Vergenoeg' laat jou dink én wonder", ''[[Die Burger]]'', 6 August 2004: p. 12.
-Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
+Coetser, J. 2006. 'Drie welkome én veelseggende dramatekste in Afrikaans', ''[[Beeld]]'', 20 February 2006: p. 19.
-== Return to ==
+https://www.roekeloos.co.za/teater/my-plaas-se-naam-is-vergenoeg/
-Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
+'My plaas se naam is Vergenoeg', [[University of the Free State]] Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, professional productions archive, 2013. https://www.ufs.ac.za/humanities/departments-and-divisions/drama-and-theatre-arts-home/drama-and-theatre-arts/general/unlisted-pages/productions/my-plaas-se-naam-is-vergenoeg-317
-Return to [[PLAYS II: Foreign plays]]
+[[George Weideman]], [[ESAT]].
-Return to [[PLAYS III: Collections]]
+Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
-Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]
+Return to [[ESAT Plays 1 M|M]] in Plays I Original SA Plays
-Return to [[South_African_Festivals|South African Festivals and Competitions]]
+Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Plays]]
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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Presented by the [[Universiteit van Stellenbosch Drama Departement|U.S. Drama]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] in 2004, directed by [[Johan Esterhuizen]], starring [[Riaan Visman]], [[Ralston Oliphant]] and others.
+: Presented by the [[Universiteit van Stellenbosch Drama Departement|U.S. Drama]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]], directed by [[Johan Esterhuizen]], starring [[Riaan Visman]], [[Ralston Oliphant]] and others.
 == Sources ==

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	[[Hennie van Coller]]. 2008. "Vergenoeg: George Weideman as dramaturg (Deel 2), ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', Volume 22: pp150-165.		[[Hennie van Coller]]. 2008. "Vergenoeg: George Weideman as dramaturg (Deel 2), ''[[South African Theatre Journal]]'', Volume 22: pp150-165.
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		+	Copy of the text (on a computer disc) found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]'s theatre archives and 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.

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Presented by [[Universiteit van Stellenbosch Drama Departement|U.S. Drama]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] in 2004, directed by [[Johan Esterhuizen]], starring [[Riaan Visman]], [[Ralston Oliphant]] and others.
+: Presented by the [[Universiteit van Stellenbosch Drama Departement|U.S. Drama]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] in 2004, directed by [[Johan Esterhuizen]], starring [[Riaan Visman]], [[Ralston Oliphant]] and others.
 == Sources ==

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 Review of the published text by [[Johan Coetser]], ''[[Beeld]]'', 20 February 2006.
-https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Vergenoeg%3A+George+Weideman+as+dramatist%2FVergenoeg%3A+George+Weideman+as...-a0198809045
+"Vergenoeg: George Weideman as dramatist", ''[[The Free Library]]''[https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Vergenoeg%3A+George+Weideman+as+dramatist%2FVergenoeg%3A+George+Weideman+as...-a0198809045]
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	Review of the published text by [[Johan Coetser]], ''[[Beeld]]'', 20 February 2006.		Review of the published text by [[Johan Coetser]], ''[[Beeld]]'', 20 February 2006.
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		+	https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Vergenoeg%3A+George+Weideman+as+dramatist%2FVergenoeg%3A+George+Weideman+as...-a0198809045

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 08:43, 16 January 2023
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	''[[My Plaas se Naam is Vergenoeg]]'' is a play by [[George Weideman]] (1947-2008).		''[[My Plaas se Naam is Vergenoeg]]'' is a play by [[George Weideman]] (1947-2008).
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		+	Sometimes referred to simply as ''[[Vergenoeg]]''.

	== The original text ==		== The original text ==