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''[[The Good Old Days]]'' often occurs in theatre, TV and film as the title of a dramatic work
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''[[The Good Old Days]]'' often occurs in theatre, TV and film as the title of a dramatic work[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Old_Days]
  
For example it occurs as the title of a 1940 British comedy (set in 1840), a popular BBC television light entertainment television program which ran from 1953 to 1983 or a 1996 Hong Kong drama series set in the early 20th century,
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For example it occurs as the title of a 1940 British comedy (set in 1840), a popular BBC television light entertainment television program which ran from 1953 to 1983 or a 1996 Hong Kong drama series set in the early 20th century
  
It is also found as ''[[The Good Old Days?]]'', e.g. in a one-act play of that name by Liz Dobson[https://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Scripts/Script.aspx?iSS=2364]
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It is also found as ''[[The Good Old Days?]]'', a British one-act play by Liz Dobson[https://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Scripts/Script.aspx?iSS=2364]
  
='''South African examples'''=
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='''South African dramatic works'''=
  
==''[[The Good Old Days]]'' by an unknown South African author==
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==''[[The Good Old Days]]'' A Stage play (Anon.)==
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
A play about a woman's unhappy marriage and ultimate suicide, set in a psychiatric hospital. It may possibly be a piece written as part of a playwriting course in the Drama Department at [[Stellenbosch University]].
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A play set in the Apartheid era, dealing with the so-called immorality act in South Africa and a woman's unhappy marriage, commitment to a psychiatric hospital and  ultimate suicide.
  
The text is unpublished. A copy of the typed text held in the Drama Department archive, [[University of Stellenbosch]].
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The text is unpublished. An anonymous copy of the typed text held in the Drama Department archive, [[University of Stellenbosch]].
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
== Sources ==
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= Sources =
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Old_Days
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https://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Scripts/Script.aspx?iSS=2364
  
 
The text of the typed text of ''[[The Good Old Days]]'', held in the Drama Department archive, [[University of Stellenbosch]].
 
The text of the typed text of ''[[The Good Old Days]]'', held in the Drama Department archive, [[University of Stellenbosch]].
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Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
  
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Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]
 
Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]

Latest revision as of 06:38, 14 June 2022

The Good Old Days as title

The Good Old Days often occurs in theatre, TV and film as the title of a dramatic work[1]

For example it occurs as the title of a 1940 British comedy (set in 1840), a popular BBC television light entertainment television program which ran from 1953 to 1983 or a 1996 Hong Kong drama series set in the early 20th century.

It is also found as The Good Old Days?, a British one-act play by Liz Dobson[2]

South African dramatic works

The Good Old Days A Stage play (Anon.)

The original text

A play set in the Apartheid era, dealing with the so-called immorality act in South Africa and a woman's unhappy marriage, commitment to a psychiatric hospital and ultimate suicide.

The text is unpublished. An anonymous copy of the typed text held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Old_Days

https://www.lazybeescripts.co.uk/Scripts/Script.aspx?iSS=2364

The text of the typed text of The Good Old Days, held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch.

Go to ESAT Bibliography

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