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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
First performed in the [[Joseph Stone Auditorium]] by the [[Belhar Amateur Dramavereniging]] in 1975. Also done by [[Unison Players]] in 1977 and 1978. Later expanded to become ''[[Die Drein]]''.
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1975: First performed in the [[Joseph Stone Auditorium]] by the [[Belhar Amateur Dramavereniging]]
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1977: Performed by [[Unison Players]]
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:14, 10 March 2023

Voor Dit Gebeur ("Before it happens ") is a one-act play with music by Peter Snyders.

The original text

Written in “Kaaps”, or "Cape Afrikaans, it is a play about municipal workers and the effect on them of finding an abandoned baby in a drain.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1975: First performed in the Joseph Stone Auditorium by the Belhar Amateur Dramavereniging

1977: Performed by Unison Players

Sources

Bound copy of the typed text of the play, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.

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