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Revision as of 10:46, 17 January 2017
Two plays by this name have been performed in South Africa: Post Mortem by Benjamin Bradford and Post Mortem by Pieter Fourie.
There are also three other registered plays by this title, not performed in the country to date:
Post Mortem (Noel Coward, 1931)[1], Postmortem (Ken Ludwig, 1983)[2], Post Mortem (A.R. Gurney, 2006)[3],
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Post Mortem by Benjamin Bradford (1925-)
The original text
First produced in Lexington, Kentucky in 1970 and won the Radio Nederland Golden Windmill Radio Drama Award First Prize in the same year.
South African performances
1973: Performed as a lunch-hour presentation at The Space (Cape Town) in 1973, directed by Bill Flynn, with Phillip Boucher, Christopher Prophet and Mike Richard. Lighting and stage management by Donald Fuller.
Sources
Go to ESAT Bibliography
Post Mortem by Pieter Fourie (1940-)
The original text
Based on a newspaper report, this is a fictionalized version of a family massacre on a South African farm and the devastating effects of a range of neuroses and sexual problems, in which an unhappy woman resurrects her husband, a coloured girl and a young man from three graves in the veld, to ascertain what had really happened to them on that day. Seen by some reviewers as a highly symbolic work, the final of a series of "farm tragedies" written by Fourie (along with Die Koggelaar, Donderdag se Mense and Ek, Anna van Wyk), even seen as a "most mortem" of the previous plays and major themes in Fourie's oeuvre (see Luwes, 2012).
Written and first performed in 1993, the text was only published in 2016 by Protea Boekhuis.
South African performances
1993: First performed in the Wynand Mouton Theatre at the University of the Free State, directed by Chris Fourie, with Anton Welman, and three students - Simoné Verster, Linda Louw and Nico Davids. Lighting by Heike Gehring and stage direction by Judy van Zyl.
1993: Perfomred at the ATKV Kampustoneel in the Breytenbach Yheatre, Pretoria Once again directed by Chris Fourie, with the same cast of Anton Welman, Simoné Verster, Linda Louw and Nico Davids. Lighting by Heike Gehring and stage direction by Judy van Zyl.
2000: Performed in die Wynand Mouton Theatre, Bloemfontein from 25 Augustus tot 2 September. Directed by Anton Welman, with professional actors Stephanie Brink and Anton Welman, and two postgraduate students, Teresca Muishond and Richard Miles.
Sources
https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Fourie
Nico Luwes 2010. Pieter Fourie (1940-) se bydrae as Afrikaanse dramaturg en kunsbestuurder: 1965-2010. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Bloemfontein: University of the Free State[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Mortem_(Gurney_play)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Mortem_(Coward_play)
https://www.samuelfrench.com/p/758/postmortem-ludwig]
Volksblad 17 Nov 2001.
Pieter Fourie. 2016. Post Mortem. Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis
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