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'''''Skrapnel''''' ("Shrapnel") is an [[Afrikaans]] play by [[Willem Anker]] (1979–).
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''[[Skrapnel]]'' ("Shrapnel") is the name of two different [[Afrikaans]] plays.
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=''[[Skrapnel]]'' by [[Hannes Spangenberg]] (2008)=
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==The original text==
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A heavily metaphoric physical theatre piece containing 9 characters bearing names like "Kenner", "Nuwe", "Diener", "Orde", "Chaos", etc.
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==Translations and adaptations==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
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2008: Performed by the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] as an examination piece for the Drama Honours course in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]], Stellenbosch, during October, directed by [[Hannes Spangenberg]]. The cast included [[Miné Schreuder]], [[Karel Bruwer]], [[Heine J. van As]], [[Amori Stols]], [[Bernadette de la Guerre]], [[Lodewyk Ludik]], [[Cintaine Schutte]], [[Nellma le Roux]] and [[Johan Falck]]. [[Naomi Slabber]] was the stage manager. Spangenberg won a Special Award for Best Student Director for this production.
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==Sources==
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Prompt copy (including a programme) and Stage Manager's file for a text called ''[[Skrapnel]]'' by [[Hannes Spangenberg]], found in the archives of the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] in 2022.
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A CD copy (marked "Skrapnel" and "original") of the music for the show, seemingly recorded 1 January 1995.
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https://www.behance.net/gallery/1231461/Skrapnel
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=''[[Skrapnel]]'' by [[Willem Anker]] (2009)=
  
 
== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
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A play about two young South Africans in London: a girls working as a carer for old people and a man working as a security guard at a shopping centre. They meet in a youth hostel and become involved. On 7 Jul7 2005 the man dies in a suicide bombing in the London Underground. The play begins shortly after the attack, and their story is told in flashbacks, that include insights into the religiuous fundamentalism of the yough Moslem suicide bomber, and the unfocussed and uncertain lives of the two young South Africans regarding identity, beliefand culture.  
 
A play about two young South Africans in London: a girls working as a carer for old people and a man working as a security guard at a shopping centre. They meet in a youth hostel and become involved. On 7 Jul7 2005 the man dies in a suicide bombing in the London Underground. The play begins shortly after the attack, and their story is told in flashbacks, that include insights into the religiuous fundamentalism of the yough Moslem suicide bomber, and the unfocussed and uncertain lives of the two young South Africans regarding identity, beliefand culture.  
  
In 2022 a prompt copy for a text called ''[[Skrapnel]]'' was accidentally discovered in the archives of the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]], apparently one used by the stage manager  ([[Naomi Slabber]]) in what  appears to have been an earlier (preliminary? workshopped?) Stellenbosch student production/exercise. This text differs considerably from the later published version, containing 9 characters (instead of the three in the final text) for example, with metaphoric names like "Kenner", "Nuwe", "Diener", "Orde", "Chaos", etc.  There is also a sound disc dated 1995. Was this early piece done in 1995?
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The play was first performed in Potchefstroom in 2009 and published by [[Protea Boekhuis]] in 2011.
 
 
If this was genuinely an early version, the text was clearly rewritten by Anker, and the final version performed in Potchefstroom in 2009 and published by [[Protea Boekhuis]] in 2011.
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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http://stellenboschwriters.com/trofees.pdf
 
http://stellenboschwriters.com/trofees.pdf
 
The stage manager [[Naomi Slabber]]'s prompt copy for a teks called ''[[Skrapnel]]'',  found in the archives of the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] in 2022.
 
 
  
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Latest revision as of 06:38, 29 November 2022

Skrapnel ("Shrapnel") is the name of two different Afrikaans plays.

Skrapnel by Hannes Spangenberg (2008)

The original text

A heavily metaphoric physical theatre piece containing 9 characters bearing names like "Kenner", "Nuwe", "Diener", "Orde", "Chaos", etc.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2008: Performed by the Stellenbosch Drama Department as an examination piece for the Drama Honours course in the H.B. Thom Theatre, Stellenbosch, during October, directed by Hannes Spangenberg. The cast included Miné Schreuder, Karel Bruwer, Heine J. van As, Amori Stols, Bernadette de la Guerre, Lodewyk Ludik, Cintaine Schutte, Nellma le Roux and Johan Falck. Naomi Slabber was the stage manager. Spangenberg won a Special Award for Best Student Director for this production.

Sources

Prompt copy (including a programme) and Stage Manager's file for a text called Skrapnel by Hannes Spangenberg, found in the archives of the Stellenbosch Drama Department in 2022.

A CD copy (marked "Skrapnel" and "original") of the music for the show, seemingly recorded 1 January 1995.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/1231461/Skrapnel

Skrapnel by Willem Anker (2009)

The original text

A play about two young South Africans in London: a girls working as a carer for old people and a man working as a security guard at a shopping centre. They meet in a youth hostel and become involved. On 7 Jul7 2005 the man dies in a suicide bombing in the London Underground. The play begins shortly after the attack, and their story is told in flashbacks, that include insights into the religiuous fundamentalism of the yough Moslem suicide bomber, and the unfocussed and uncertain lives of the two young South Africans regarding identity, beliefand culture.

The play was first performed in Potchefstroom in 2009 and published by Protea Boekhuis in 2011.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2009: First presented at the Aardklop festival in Potchefstroom, directed and designed by Jaco Bouwer, with lighting design by Michael Maxwell and sound design by Braam du Toit. The cast consisted of Marcel van Heerden, Andrew Thompson and Jenine Groenewald.

2010: The same production was presented at the Woordfees in Stellenbosch on 4 and 6 March and at the National Arts Festival in July.

2019: Performed by VNA Productions for the South African State Theatre's school set works program.

Sources

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27759376-skrapnel

Weekend Post 20 June 2010.

https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.4314/tvl.v49i1.27

http://news.artsmart.co.za/2010/06/naf-skrapnel.html

http://stellenboschwriters.com/trofees.pdf

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