Nag, Generaal - Revision history

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Performance history of Nag, Generaal in South Africa

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Performance history in South Africa

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Performance history in South Africa

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	[[National Arts Festival]] programme 1988. 42.		[[National Arts Festival]] programme 1988. 42.
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		+	[[Ruphin Coudyzer]]. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of [[Market Theatre]] productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)

	''[[Evening Post]]'', 4 July 1988;		''[[Evening Post]]'', 4 July 1988;

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 == Performance history of ''[[Nag, Generaal]]'' in South Africa ==
 : Directed by [[Lucille Gillwald]] in 1988 for the [[Market Theatre Company]] with [[Sandra Prinsloo]] (Magda), [[Gys de Villiers]] (Generaal), [[Dawid Minnaar]] (Naas), [[André Stolz]] (Lombaard) at the [[Rhodes Theatre]], [[Grahamstown Festival]] followed by a run at [[Upstairs at the Market]]. Design by [[Nadya Cohen]], lighting by [[Wesley France]].
 : Directed by [[Ernst Eloff]] for [[PACOFS]] at the [[André Huguenet Theatre]], Bloemfontein, opening 15 August 1991. The cast members were [[Christo Compion]] (Generaal), [[Isadora Verwey]] (Magda), [[Pieter Brand]] (Naas) and [[Hendrik Baird]] (Lombaard). Design [[Johnny Boerstoel]], lighting [[Dulcie Holtzhausen]], musical arrangement [[Heidi Edeling]].

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	''[[Nag, Generaal]]'' ("Goodnight, General") is a play by [[Reza de Wet]] (1952-2012).		''[[Nag, Generaal]]'' ("Goodnight, General") is a play by [[Reza de Wet]] (1952-2012).
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		+	See also '''''[[Breathing In]]'''''

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 ''[[Breathing In ]]'' was in its turn translated back into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''[[Asem]]''''' ("breath") by [[Marthinus Basson]] and had its premiére at the [[KKNK]] in 2017.
-== Performance history in South Africa ==
+== Performance history of ''[[Nag, Generaal]]'' in South Africa ==
 : Directed by [[Lucille Gillwald]] in 1988 for the [[Market Theatre Company]] with [[Sandra Prinsloo]] (Magda), [[Gys de Villiers]] (Generaal), [[Dawid Minnaar]] (Naas), [[André Stolz]] (Lombaard) at the [[Rhodes Theatre]], [[Grahamstown Festival]] followed by a run at [[Upstairs at the Market]]. Design by [[Nadya Cohen]], lighting by [[Wesley France]].

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	Hester Rossly van der Wal. 2005. ''Vrouefigure in Reza de Wet se Drama-oeuvre''. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, [[University of South Africa]][http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/1991/dissertation.pdf].		Hester Rossly van der Wal. 2005. ''Vrouefigure in Reza de Wet se Drama-oeuvre''. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, [[University of South Africa]][http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/1991/dissertation.pdf].
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		+	[[Shirley Johnston]] 2018. ''"Drifte": Discovering the Secrets of Reza de Wet's Heart''. Unpublished manuscript of a contribution to a commemorative collection for De Wet.

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

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
-In 2004 [[Reza de Wet|De Wet]] re-wrote the play as ''[[Breathing In]]'', a more Gothic tale and refocusing the issues of the play on the notion that the "final breath" of a dying person could be life-giving. Using very much the same situation, she retains the General, but combines the Martha character with that of the mysterious healer, to create a kind of Mother Courage character, who, while acting as healer, simultaneously scavenges on the battlefield, to the extent of using her beautiful young daughter to seduce young soldiers and robbing them of their "dying breath" to keep her daughter alive.
+In 2004 [[Reza de Wet|De Wet]] re-wrote the play as ''[[Breathing In]]'', a more Gothic tale and refocusing the issues of the play on the notion that the "final breath" of a dying person could be life-giving. Using very much the same situation, she retains the General, but combines the Martha character with that of the mysterious healer, to create a kind of "Mother Courage" character, who, while acting as healer, simultaneously scavenges on the battlefield, to the extent of using her beautiful young daughter to seduce young soldiers and robbing them of their "dying breath" to keep her daughter alive.
 ''[[Breathing In ]]'' was in its turn translated back into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''[[Asem]]''''' ("breath") by [[Marthinus Basson]] and had its premiére at the [[KKNK]] in 2017.

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	1991: Directed by [[Ernst Eloff]] for [[PACOFS]] at the [[André Huguenet Theatre]], Bloemfontein, opening 15 August 1991. The cast members were [[Christo Compion]] (Generaal), [[Isadora Verwey]] (Magda), [[Pieter Brand]] (Naas) and [[Hendrik Baird]] (Lombaard). Design [[Johnny Boerstoel]], lighting [[Dulcie Holtzhausen]], musical arrangement [[Heidi Edeling]].		1991: Directed by [[Ernst Eloff]] for [[PACOFS]] at the [[André Huguenet Theatre]], Bloemfontein, opening 15 August 1991. The cast members were [[Christo Compion]] (Generaal), [[Isadora Verwey]] (Magda), [[Pieter Brand]] (Naas) and [[Hendrik Baird]] (Lombaard). Design [[Johnny Boerstoel]], lighting [[Dulcie Holtzhausen]], musical arrangement [[Heidi Edeling]].
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		+	1996: Scenes from the play were performed by seven final year [[University of Stellenbosch]] drama students in the [[Kellerteater]] at the University, directed by lecturer [[Shirley Johnston]], with a cast including [[Paul du Toit]], [[Angerie van Wyk]], [[Martelize Kolver]], [[Leanna Dreyer]], [[Nicole Holm ]], [[Amelda Brand]] and [[Nico Dreyer]]. Set design and lighting by [[Kobus Rossouw]]. In a rare exchange, the production was also performed for and debated by the [[UCT]] drama staff and students, in the Drama Department of the [[University of Cape Town]].

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 A pacifist play set in the final years of the Anglo-Boer War and relating the story of Martha, a woman finding her own inner strength with the aid of a mystical young herbalist, while seeking to avenge herself on her dying husband, the patriarchal General, whom she holds responsible for the death by suffocation of her son, whom he had sent to the battle front.
-Published in ''[[Vrystaat Trilogie]]'' ("Free State Trilogy") in 1991 ([[HAUM-Literêr]]).
+Published in De Wet's collection called ''[[Vrystaat Trilogie]]'' ("Free State Trilogy") in 1991 ([[HAUM-Literêr]]), along with ''[[Diepe Grond]]'' and ''[[Op Dees Aarde]]''.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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 ''[[Nag, Generaal]]'' theatre programme, 1991.
-Hester Rossly van der Wal. 2005. ''Vrouefigure in Reza de Wet se Drama-oeuvre''. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, [[University of South Africa]].
+Hester Rossly van der Wal. 2005. ''Vrouefigure in Reza de Wet se Drama-oeuvre''. Unpublished M.A. Thesis, [[University of South Africa]][http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/1991/dissertation.pdf].
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]