Difference between revisions of "Debbie Go Home"
| (2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
''[[Death of a Tsotsi]]''; ''[[The Worst Thing of his Life]]''; ''[[The Waste Land]]''; ''[[A Drink in the Passage]]''; ''[[Sponono]]'' and ''[[The Elephant-Shooter]]''. | ''[[Death of a Tsotsi]]''; ''[[The Worst Thing of his Life]]''; ''[[The Waste Land]]''; ''[[A Drink in the Passage]]''; ''[[Sponono]]'' and ''[[The Elephant-Shooter]]''. | ||
| − | M. | + | M. Malaba (2015) says that Paton's collection "foregrounds the plight of the coloured community in the wake of the so-called Industrial Conciliation Act and the systematic tightening of segregationist policies as the National Party government consolidated its grip on power. Five of the ten stories in the anthology are drawn from Paton’s experience at Diepkloof Reformatory." |
| − | + | =Dramatised versions of the story= | |
| − | =''[[Debbie Go Home]]'' by [[Michael Picardie]]= | + | ==''[[Debbie Go Home]]'' by [[Michael Picardie]]== |
A TV play adapted from [[Alan Paton]]'s short story by the same name, it was produced for the BBC by James MacTaggart, with music by [[The Happy Wanderers]] and design by [[Richard Wilmot]]. | A TV play adapted from [[Alan Paton]]'s short story by the same name, it was produced for the BBC by James MacTaggart, with music by [[The Happy Wanderers]] and design by [[Richard Wilmot]]. | ||
| Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
Broadcast on BBC Television, 7 November 1962. The script is unpublished. | Broadcast on BBC Television, 7 November 1962. The script is unpublished. | ||
| − | =''[[Debbie Go Home]]'' by [[James Winkler]]= | + | ==''[[Debbie Go Home]]'' by [[James Winkler]]== |
| − | + | Some sources site this as an original work, but it is most likely a stage version by Winkler, based on the short story. The play was apparently performed some time in the 1980s? | |
= Sources = | = Sources = | ||
Latest revision as of 14:59, 24 August 2022
Debbie Go Home is the title of a few works based on a short story by Alan Paton.
Contents
Debbie Go Home the original story by Alan Paton
A short story, set in South Africa, it was published in the collection Debbie Go Home in 1961. The volume also including Ha'penny; The Divided House; Life for a Life; Death of a Tsotsi; The Worst Thing of his Life; The Waste Land; A Drink in the Passage; Sponono and The Elephant-Shooter.
M. Malaba (2015) says that Paton's collection "foregrounds the plight of the coloured community in the wake of the so-called Industrial Conciliation Act and the systematic tightening of segregationist policies as the National Party government consolidated its grip on power. Five of the ten stories in the anthology are drawn from Paton’s experience at Diepkloof Reformatory."
Dramatised versions of the story
Debbie Go Home by Michael Picardie
A TV play adapted from Alan Paton's short story by the same name, it was produced for the BBC by James MacTaggart, with music by The Happy Wanderers and design by Richard Wilmot.
Broadcast on BBC Television, 7 November 1962. The script is unpublished.
Debbie Go Home by James Winkler
Some sources site this as an original work, but it is most likely a stage version by Winkler, based on the short story. The play was apparently performed some time in the 1980s?
Sources
Malaba, M. 2015. "Could You Not Write Otherwise?”. The Political Dimension of Alan Paton’s Poetry. In: KOERS — Bulletin for Christian Scholarship,80(2) Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.19108/koers.80.2.2229.
https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files2/asapr59.22.pdf
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1f3f56f1398748dbbaf26fae13276e2d
E-mail from Michael Picardie to Temple Hauptfleisch, Monday 2015/07/06 10:46 PM.
The Michael Picardie website at http://michaelpicardie.co.uk/main.php.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2705154-debbie-go-home
Faan se Stasie theatre programme, 1985.
Various articles in The Rand Daily Mail.
Go to the ESAT Bibliography
Return to
Return to PLAYS I: Original SA plays
Return to PLAYS II: Foreign plays
Return to South African Television Plays and Series
Return to PLAYS III: Collections
Return to PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances
Return to South African Festivals and Competitions
Return to The ESAT Entries
Return to Main Page
