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''[[No Why]]'' is a play by John Whiting ()[]

==The play==

Jacob has been sent to the attic in disgrace. One by one family members come up from a party to accuse him of doing a disgusting thing. He sits silently, listening as they reveal more about themselves and their relationships with each other than about what Jacob has done. One by one, they go back downstairs, leaving the child alone with his father. He attempts to create a spark of feeling between them, but wishes in his heart that Jacob had never been born. Unable to reach his son, he descends. Alone now, Jacob hangs himself as music and laughter are heard from below.

Translated into Afrikaans as ''[[Geen Vrae]]'' by an unnamed author.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Why-Acting-John-Whiting/dp/0573021805

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	Written in 1957, the play tells of Jacob, who has been sent to the attic in disgrace. One by one family members come up from a party to accuse him of doing a disgusting thing. He sits silently, listening as they reveal more about themselves and their relationships with each other than about what Jacob has done. One by one, they go back downstairs, leaving the child alone with his father. He attempts to create a spark of feeling between them, but wishes in his heart that Jacob had never been born. Unable to reach his son, he descends. Alone now, Jacob hangs himself as music and laughter are heard from below.		Written in 1957, the play tells of Jacob, who has been sent to the attic in disgrace. One by one family members come up from a party to accuse him of doing a disgusting thing. He sits silently, listening as they reveal more about themselves and their relationships with each other than about what Jacob has done. One by one, they go back downstairs, leaving the child alone with his father. He attempts to create a spark of feeling between them, but wishes in his heart that Jacob had never been born. Unable to reach his son, he descends. Alone now, Jacob hangs himself as music and laughter are heard from below.
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		+	Performed as part of Expeditions One by the Royal Shakespeare Company, on 2nd July 1964 at Aldwych Theatre, London.
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		+	Published by [[Samuel French]] in 1961 and in Volume 2 of ''The Collected Plays of John Whiting'' by Theatre Arts Books, 1969.

	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==

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-''[[No Why]]'' is a play by John Whiting ()[]
+''[[No Why]]'' is a play by John Whiting (1917–1963)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whiting]
 ==The original text==
-Jacob has been sent to the attic in disgrace. One by one family members come up from a party to accuse him of doing a disgusting thing. He sits silently, listening as they reveal more about themselves and their relationships with each other than about what Jacob has done. One by one, they go back downstairs, leaving the child alone with his father. He attempts to create a spark of feeling between them, but wishes in his heart that Jacob had never been born. Unable to reach his son, he descends. Alone now, Jacob hangs himself as music and laughter are heard from below.
+Written in 1957, the play tells of Jacob, who has been sent to the attic in disgrace. One by one family members come up from a party to accuse him of doing a disgusting thing. He sits silently, listening as they reveal more about themselves and their relationships with each other than about what Jacob has done. One by one, they go back downstairs, leaving the child alone with his father. He attempts to create a spark of feeling between them, but wishes in his heart that Jacob had never been born. Unable to reach his son, he descends. Alone now, Jacob hangs himself as music and laughter are heard from below.
 ==Translations and adaptations==
-Translated into Afrikaans as '''''[[Geen Vrae]]''''' by an unnamed author.
+Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as '''''[[Geen Vrae]]''''' by an unnamed author.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==
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 == Sources ==
 https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Why-Acting-John-Whiting/dp/0573021805