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''[[Love and Altitude]]'' is an elaborate musical-within-a-musical about people in a South African ''dorp'' (village) who are devising and presenting a musical in aid of war funds.
 
''[[Love and Altitude]]'' is an elaborate musical-within-a-musical about people in a South African ''dorp'' (village) who are devising and presenting a musical in aid of war funds.
  
The script exists in fragmentary form only. Manuscript and typescript included in the Black collection in the Africana section of the South African Library in Cape Town.
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The script exists in fragmentary form only. Manuscript and typescript included in the Black collection in the Africana section of the South African Library in Cape Town. A typescript copy is held in the Strange Collection at the Johannesburg Public Library.
  
 
== Adaptations and translations ==
 
== Adaptations and translations ==

Latest revision as of 17:19, 24 January 2024

Love and Altitude (also known as The Belle of the Dorp) is a musical by Stephen Black (1880-1931) and Cecil Kellaway (1891-1973).

The original text

Love and Altitude is an elaborate musical-within-a-musical about people in a South African dorp (village) who are devising and presenting a musical in aid of war funds.

The script exists in fragmentary form only. Manuscript and typescript included in the Black collection in the Africana section of the South African Library in Cape Town. A typescript copy is held in the Strange Collection at the Johannesburg Public Library.

Adaptations and translations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Stephen Gray (ed.) 1984. Stephen Black Three Plays. A.D. Donker.

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