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"Afrikaanse voorgeskrewe werke lok vol sale"  - 22/04/2015 - [[Artslink]].co.za News
 
"Afrikaanse voorgeskrewe werke lok vol sale"  - 22/04/2015 - [[Artslink]].co.za News
  
"Map Jacobs is uit op parool!" [[Artscape]] press release04/14/2015[http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=37788]
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"Map Jacobs is uit op parool!" [[Artscape]] press release - 04/14/2015[http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=37788]
  
  

Revision as of 08:20, 1 May 2015

("The Christmas of Map Jacobs" - Afrikaans) by Adam Small. Set in the Cape Flats in the seventies, during the forced removals, it tells the story of the gangleader Map Jacobs who comes out of jail on parole, and the impact on the community to which he returns.

First published by Tafelberg in 1983 and reprinted several times.


1979: Commissioned by PACOFS under the Nederburg Incentive Scheme ??** and first performed by PACOFS in Bloemfontein in 1979, directed by Sandra Kotzé, with Nico Liebenberg and Antoinette Kellermann.

1982: PACT, September 1982, State Theatre and Alexander Theatre, directed by Louis van Niekerk, with Leslie Fong (as Map Jacobs), William Abdul, Anthony Wilson and others.

Performed by the Cape Flats Players in the late seventies and early eighties and

Performed by the Robertson Drama Group at the Kellerprinz-Drama festival in 1986. Other productions include the Suidoosterfees ( 2006, with Christo Davids), ( Directed by André Stolz with with David Johnson, Sindi Sampson, Leslie Fong, Irvine van der Merwe, Chrystal-Donna Roberts, Merlin Balie, Revano Michael Singh and Bradley Olivier.

2012: Performed at schools in the Cape province and Artscape 1-3 August, 2012)**

2015: Performed in May by Artscape, as a co-production with Cape Heart Theatre, directed by André Samuels, with Maurice Page, Duncan Johnson, Charlton George, Marlo Minnaar, Gail Juta, Latasha Storm, Shannon B. Williams, Dean van der Ventel, Shaun Klaasen, Whaden Johannes and Ivan Abrahams.


Sources

PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988

"Afrikaanse voorgeskrewe werke lok vol sale" - 22/04/2015 - Artslink.co.za News

"Map Jacobs is uit op parool!" Artscape press release - 04/14/2015[1]


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