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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
| − | Translated into English by [[André P. Brink]] in 1970, with the title '''''[[Elsewhere Fine and Warm]]'''''. Performed in 1976. The text is unpublished, though a copy of the translation is held by [[NELM]] (Collection: BRINK, André; P]: 2001. 34. 1. 14) | + | Translated into English by [[André P. Brink]] in 1970, with the title '''''[[Elsewhere Fine and Warm]]'''''. Performed in 1976. The text is unpublished, though a copy of the translation is held by [[NELM]] (Collection: BRINK, André; P]: 2001. 34. 1. 14), while another copy is part of the [[Antoinette Kellerman]] collection found in the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]]. Now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa. (See '''[[Antoinette Kellerman Collection (KC)]]'''.) |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 15:16, 4 September 2025
Elders Mooiweer en Warm[[ (lit. trans. “elsewhere good weather and warm”) is an Afrikaans play by André P. Brink (1935-2015).
Contents
The original text
Published by John Malherbe, 1965.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English by André P. Brink in 1970, with the title Elsewhere Fine and Warm. Performed in 1976. The text is unpublished, though a copy of the translation is held by NELM (Collection: BRINK, André; P]: 2001. 34. 1. 14), while another copy is part of the Antoinette Kellerman collection found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department. Now held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa. (See Antoinette Kellerman Collection (KC).)
Performance history in South Africa
1970: The Afrikaans version performed by PACOFS, directed by André P. Brink with Jan Prinsloo, Annie Basson, Johan Botha and Louise Mollett-Prinsloo.
1971: The Afrikaans version performed by PACT, directed by Carel Trichardt with Tine Balder (Julia}, Sandra Prinsloo (Sonja), Schalk Jacobsz (George), Louis van Niekerk (Dawid), Marius Weyers (Frans). Decor by Chris van den Berg.
1976: SWAPAC Drama presented the English version, called Elsewhere Fine and Warm, directed by Johan Botha Lida Botha (Julia), Antoinette Kellermann (Sonia), Dawie Malan (George), Kobus Strydom (David), Johan Botha (Charles). Decor designed by Dawie Malan, lighting by Hans Reinhardt.
Sources
PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988.
Elders Mooiweer en Warm theatre programme, 1971.
Elsewhere Fine and Warm theatre programme, 1976.
Elsewhere Fine and Warm script: Antoinette Kellerman's annotated copy, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022.
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