Red George - Revision history

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Performance history in South Africa

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''[[Red George]]'' is a play by [[Peter Krummeck]].

== The original text ==
The playwright's great-great grandfather was a man called Red George Barker. A virtually complete set of journals he kept in the 1800s came to light. First turned into a 40-part, daily radio series (in collaboration with his sister [[Judith Krummeck]]), the diaries were adapted for the stage.

Playscript [Typescript photocopy] doanted by [[Baxtrer Theatre]] held by [[NELM]]: [Collection: BAXTER THEATRE]: 2009. 21. 21.

== Performance history in South Africa ==
2007: Directed at the [[National Arts Festival]] by [[Denise Newman]], performed by [[Peter Krummeck]], playing 17 characters, ranging from Dr Philip, Moderator of the London Missionary Society, to the manipulative Lord Charles Somerset, Governor of the Cape. Other characters include Red George's Xhosa interpreter Dyani Tsatsu, his irrepressible Khoi drover Valentyn Brander and the dizzy Mrs Hamilton. This production opened in August at Theatre Ii the District in Woodstock, Cape Town.

== Sources ==
''[[Cape Times]]'', 21 August 2007.

Theatre programmes and other material held by [[NELM]].

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Directed at the [[National Arts Festival]] by [[Denise Newman]], performed by [[Peter Krummeck]], playing 17 characters, ranging from Dr Philip, Moderator of the London Missionary Society, to the manipulative Lord Charles Somerset, Governor of the Cape. Other characters include Red George's Xhosa interpreter Dyani Tsatsu, his irrepressible Khoi drover Valentyn Brander and the dizzy Mrs Hamilton. This production opened in August at Theatre Ii the District in Woodstock, Cape Town.
+: Directed at the [[National Arts Festival]] by [[Denise Newman]], performed by [[Peter Krummeck]], playing 17 characters, ranging from Dr Philip, Moderator of the London Missionary Society, to the manipulative Lord Charles Somerset, Governor of the Cape. Other characters include Red George's Xhosa interpreter Dyani Tsatsu, his irrepressible Khoi drover Valentyn Brander and the dizzy Mrs Hamilton. This production opened in August at Theatre in the District in Woodstock, Cape Town.
 == Sources ==

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 The playwright's great-great grandfather was a man called Red George Barker. A virtually complete set of journals he kept in the 1800s came to light. First turned into a 40-part, daily radio series (in collaboration with his sister [[Judith Krummeck]]), the diaries were adapted for the stage.
-Playscript [Typescript photocopy] doanted by [[Baxtrer Theatre]] held by [[NELM]]: [Collection: BAXTER THEATRE]: 2009. 21. 21.
+Playscript [Typescript photocopy] donated by [[Baxter Theatre]] held by [[NELM]]: [Collection: BAXTER THEATRE]: 2009. 21. 21.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==