W.A. de Klerk - Revision history

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-He also wrote a number of radio dramas including, in November 1945, [[Die Gelukkige Huwelik]] (The Happy Marriage) a play directed by Anna K Pohl (Anna S Pohl?) later [[Anna Neethling-Pohl]]? and broadcast by SABC "A" out of Johannesburg. ''(Please confirm!)''
+He also wrote a number of radio dramas including, in November 1945, [[Die Gelukkige Huwelik]] (The Happy Marriage) a play directed by Anna K Pohl (Anna S Pohl?) later [[Anna Neethling-Pohl]]? and broadcast by SABC "A" out of Johannesburg. ''(Please confirm Pohl's name!)''
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 == Sources ==
 [[Afrikaans]] [[Wikipedia]]''[https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.A._de_Klerk]
 [[Mona de Beer]] 1995. ''Who Did What in South Africa'' (Revised ed.). Johannesburg: [[Ad Donker]].

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-He also wrote a number of radio dramas.
+He also wrote a number of radio dramas including, in November 1945, [[Die Gelukkige Huwelik]] (The Happy Marriage) a play directed by Anna K Pohl (Anna S Pohl?) later [[Anna Neethling-Pohl]]? and broadcast by SABC "A" out of Johannesburg. ''(Please confirm!)''
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 ''[[Die Volmaakte Huwelik]]'', ''[[Die Jammer Hart]]'' and ''[[Ontvlugting]]'' (in ''[[Drie Vroue]]'', 1947),
-''[[Die Reën Van Jou Liefde]]'' (in ''[[Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]], 1948).
+''[[Die Reën Van Jou Liefde]]'' (in ''[[Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]]'', 1948).
 ''[[Waai, Westewind]]'' (in ''[[Vier Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]]'', 1950).

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	''[[Die Volmaakte Huwelik]]'', ''[[Die Jammer Hart]]'' and ''[[Ontvlugting]]'' (in ''[[Drie Vroue]]'', 1947),		''[[Die Volmaakte Huwelik]]'', ''[[Die Jammer Hart]]'' and ''[[Ontvlugting]]'' (in ''[[Drie Vroue]]'', 1947),
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		+	''[[Die Reën Van Jou Liefde]]'' (in ''[[Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]], 1948).

	''[[Waai, Westewind]]'' (in ''[[Vier Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]]'', 1950).		''[[Waai, Westewind]]'' (in ''[[Vier Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]]'', 1950).

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 ===Shorter works===
-He wrote nine published one-act plays, among which are some of his better works, including: ''[[Pilatus]]'' (in ''[[Ses Eenbedrywe]]'', 1946), ''[[Die Jammer Hart]]'' (in ''[[Drie Vroue]]'', 1947), ''[[Waai, Westewind]]'' (in ''[[Vier Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]]'', 1950). ''[[Die Volmaakte Huwelik]]'' (in ''[[Voort met die Spel]]'', 1991).
+He wrote nine published one-act plays, among which are some of his better works, including:
 He also wrote a number of radio dramas.

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 == His contribution to South African theatre. ==
-As dramatist De Klerk picks up where [[J.F.W. Grosskopf]] left off with social realism, linking with Ibsen and O’Neill. While strong dramatic situations are depicted and he aims for powerful characterization (often focussed on the limitations of and challenges for man in society), the plays are at times spoiled by relatively heavy-handed and “stagey” dialogue and purple passages of  pseudo-philosophical moralizing. However he was perhaps the pre-eminent “serious” dramatic writer of his generation, his works forming the cornerstone of the [[National Theatre Organisation]] ([[NTO]]) repertoire and the published plays became a core part of the mid-century dramatic canon in Afrikaans. For example, ''[[Nag het die Wind Gebring]]'' ("Night brought the Wind") was originally directed by [[Anna Neethling-Pohl]] for [[Volksteater]], but then later used for the inaugural season of [[NTO]], Hellersee was first dione by [[K.A.T.]] in Cape Town, and then by [[NTO]] in 1959, while ''[[Die Jaar van die Vuuros]]'', his most ambitious and profound – possibly best - play, was written as a commissioned work for the 1952 [[The Van Riebeeck Festival|Van Riebeeck Tricentenary]] festivities. The play tentatively sought to question some of the tenets underlying the segregationists ideas being propagated by the newly elected Nationalist Party. Produced by [[NTO]] , it won De Klerk the [[Hertzogprys|Hertzog Prize]] for drama (a contentious award because he shared it with [[Gerhard J. Beukes]]). It was also a standard prescribed work for schools and literary courses for almost four decades (1950s-1980s). His first play was ''[[Uit die goeie aarde]]'' (“From the good earth” - 1942), a play about student life, followed by a collection of three plays  (''[[Die Verterende Vuur]]'' [“The consuming fire”], ''[[Nag het die Wind Gebring]]'' [“Night brought the wind”] and ''[[Hellersee]]'' [which opened the [[Bloemfontein Civic Theatre]] in 1959], in ''Drie Dramas'', 1947). Then came: ''[[Vlamme oor La Roche]]'' (“Flames over La Roche” – 1951),  ''[[Die Jaar van die Vuuros]]'' (lit. “The year of the fire ox”, 1952), ''[[Die Twisappel]]'' (The bone [lit. “apple”] of contention”, 1955),  ''[[Vermaak se kind]]'' (“Child of entertainment”, 1963), ''[[Wanneer see en branders dreun]]'' (“When sea and waves boom”, 1963). After a long silence he published ''[[Die Markplein]]'' (“The marketplace”) in 1978, but by then his style of theatre had gone out of fashion and it was never seriously considered for performance.
+As dramatist De Klerk picks up where [[J.F.W. Grosskopf]] left off with social realism, linking with Ibsen and O’Neill. While strong dramatic situations are depicted and he aims for powerful characterization (often focussed on the limitations of and challenges for man in society), the plays are at times spoiled by relatively heavy-handed and "stagey" dialogue and purple passages of  pseudo-philosophical moralizing. However he was perhaps the pre-eminent "serious" dramatic writer of his generation, his works forming the cornerstone of the [[National Theatre Organisation]] ([[NTO]]) repertoire and the published plays became a core part of the mid-century dramatic canon in Afrikaans. For example, ''[[Nag het die Wind Gebring]]'' ("Night brought the Wind") was originally directed by [[Anna Neethling-Pohl]] for [[Volksteater]], but then later used for the inaugural season of [[NTO]], ''[[Hellersee]]'' was first done by [[K.A.T.]] in Cape Town, and then by [[NTO]] in 1959, while ''[[Die Jaar van die Vuuros]]'', his most ambitious and profound – possibly best - play, was written as a commissioned work for the 1952 [[The Van Riebeeck Festival|Van Riebeeck Tricentenary]] festivities. The play tentatively sought to question some of the tenets underlying the segregationists ideas being propagated by the newly elected Nationalist Party. Produced by [[NTO]] , it won De Klerk the [[Hertzogprys|Hertzog Prize]] for drama (a contentious award because he shared it with [[Gerhard J. Beukes]]). It was also a standard prescribed work for schools and literary courses for almost four decades (1950s-1980s).
-He wrote nine published one-act plays, among which are some of his better works, including: ''[[Pilatus]]'' (in ''[[Ses Eenbedrywe]]'', 1946), ''[[Die Jammer Hart]]'' (in ''[[Drie Vroue]]'', 1947), ''[[Waai, Westewind]]'' (in ''[[Vier Uitgesoekte Eenbedrywe]]'', 1950). ''[[Die Volmaakte Huwelik]]''
+===Other full-length plays===
 He also wrote a number of radio dramas.