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''[[Solomon and Marion]]'' is a play by [[Lara Foot]]

==Original text==

"Solomon and Marion is the story of two injured souls searching for redemption in the fragile, post-apartheid South Africa. Marion has watched her life drain away. Children and husband gone, she ekes out an existence in a country utterly transformed. But it's the only home she has. As the new South Africa prepares for the World Cup finals, old divisions and suspicions seem as deep as ever, and the intruder she has been expecting, dreading and needing arrives. Can true reconciliation turn darkness into hope?"

==Performance history in South Africa==

2012: The play won the 2012 [[Fleur du Cap award]] for Best New South African Play. [[Mannie Manim]] won the award for Best Lighting Design.

2013: Presented in Johannesburg run and at the [[Baxter Theatre Centre]] (July) before a run at the Edinburgh Festival. Directed by [[Lara Foot]], with [[Janet Suzman]] and [[Khayalethu Anthony]].

==Sources==

https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2013-07-12-solomon-and-marion-opens-at-baxter-ahead-of-edinburgh-festival

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 : First presented at the [[Baxter Golden Arrow Studio]].  Directed by [[Lara Foot]], with [[Janet Suzman]] and [[Khayalethu Anthony]] (November). The play won the 2012 [[Fleur du Cap award]] for Best New South African Play. [[Mannie Manim]] won the award for Best Lighting Design.
-: Presented in Johannesburg run and at the [[Baxter Theatre Centre]] (July) before a run at the Edinburgh Festival. Directed by [[Lara Foot]], with [[Janet Suzman]] and [[Khayalethu Anthony]].
+: Presented in Johannesburg and at the [[Baxter Theatre Centre]] (July) before a run at the Edinburgh Festival. Directed by [[Lara Foot]], with [[Janet Suzman]] and [[Khayalethu Anthony]].
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 ==Original text==
-A random murder forms the basis of the play — that of young actor Brett Goldin and his friend Richard Bloom, who were killed in Cape Town in April 2006. Janet Suzman - who played Marion in the play - was directing Goldin in ''[[Hamlet]]'' at the [[Baxter Theatre]] at the time of his murder.
+A random murder forms the basis of the play — that of young actor Brett Goldin and his friend Richard Bloom, who were killed in Cape Town in April 2006. [[Janet Suzman]] - who played Marion in the play - was directing Goldin in ''[[Hamlet]]'' at the [[Baxter Theatre]] at the time of his murder.
 "Solomon and Marion is the story of two injured souls searching for redemption in the fragile, post-apartheid South Africa. Marion has watched her life drain away. Children and husband gone, she ekes out an existence in a country utterly transformed. But it's the only home she has. As the new South Africa prepares for the World Cup finals, old divisions and suspicions seem as deep as ever, and the intruder she has been expecting, dreading and needing arrives. Can true reconciliation turn darkness into hope?"

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		+	A random murder forms the basis of the play — that of young actor Brett Goldin and his friend Richard Bloom, who were killed in Cape Town in April 2006. Janet Suzman - who played Marion in the play - was directing Goldin in ''[[Hamlet]]'' at the [[Baxter Theatre]] at the time of his murder.

	"Solomon and Marion is the story of two injured souls searching for redemption in the fragile, post-apartheid South Africa. Marion has watched her life drain away. Children and husband gone, she ekes out an existence in a country utterly transformed. But it's the only home she has. As the new South Africa prepares for the World Cup finals, old divisions and suspicions seem as deep as ever, and the intruder she has been expecting, dreading and needing arrives. Can true reconciliation turn darkness into hope?"		"Solomon and Marion is the story of two injured souls searching for redemption in the fragile, post-apartheid South Africa. Marion has watched her life drain away. Children and husband gone, she ekes out an existence in a country utterly transformed. But it's the only home she has. As the new South Africa prepares for the World Cup finals, old divisions and suspicions seem as deep as ever, and the intruder she has been expecting, dreading and needing arrives. Can true reconciliation turn darkness into hope?"

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