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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Set in the American Civil War, it is about two opponent soldiers who decide to lay down their arms and break bread together.  
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Set in the American Civil War, it is about two soldiers who call call cautiously, challengingly, back and forth across the desolate clearing. Mere boys and sole survivors of their respective companies, Rep and Yankee agree to a desperate bargain: A life for a loaf of bread! The foes will lay down their guns for the moment, sit down together, break the stale crust of bread and share it. Afterward, they will again take up their rifles and face each other across the clearing in a final showdown.
  
 
Published in Baker's Plays, 1961.
 
Published in Baker's Plays, 1961.
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https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Breaking_of_Bread.html?id=OPD3OBM48iwC&redir_esc=y
 
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Breaking_of_Bread.html?id=OPD3OBM48iwC&redir_esc=y
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https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/6439/the-breaking-of-bread
  
 
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Latest revision as of 10:34, 9 October 2023

The Breaking of Bread is a one-act play by William Watson ()[].

The original text

Set in the American Civil War, it is about two soldiers who call call cautiously, challengingly, back and forth across the desolate clearing. Mere boys and sole survivors of their respective companies, Rep and Yankee agree to a desperate bargain: A life for a loaf of bread! The foes will lay down their guns for the moment, sit down together, break the stale crust of bread and share it. Afterward, they will again take up their rifles and face each other across the clearing in a final showdown.

Published in Baker's Plays, 1961.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans by Tinus Visser as Niks Behalwe Brood Nie ("Nothing but bread").


Performance history in South Africa

Sources

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Breaking_of_Bread.html?id=OPD3OBM48iwC&redir_esc=y

https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/6439/the-breaking-of-bread

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