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Latest revision as of 06:06, 1 August 2025
Sordid Story is a one act play by J.A.S. Coppard (active 1932-1985).
Contents
The original text
An Australian play about the conflicting thoughts that on in the mind of a thug as he waits on a street corner for his girl.
Published in Twelve One-Act Plays from the International One-Act Play Theatre, edited by Elizabeth Everard and published in London by Allen and Unwin in 1939.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Die Verwronge Spel ("the twisted play/game") by Hannes Horne.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/coppard-j-a-s.php
https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-RenCrea-t1-body-d3-d12.html
Bound copy of the typed text of Die Verwronge Spel, found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department archives in 2022. 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.
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