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| + | A tragic play about a murderess sentenced to a life sentence, who is released after ten years when diagnosed with an incurable disease. She returns home to confront her three sisters, who had not seen her in the meantime and to get her things in order before she dies. | ||
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| + | First produced by the International One-Act Play Theatre at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, in November 8, 1936. The text published as ''[[Her Affairs in Order: Drama for Six Women]]'' in ''Three Prize One Act Plays and Two Others'' (1937), as one of the prize-winning plays. | ||
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
| − | Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Judith kom huis toe]]'' ("Judith comes home") by | + | Translated into [[Afrikaans]] as ''[[Judith kom huis toe]]'' ("Judith comes home") by [[Lourens Fourie]] in the 1967. |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| − | 1967: | + | 1967: Performed as part of a programme of plays called ''[[Drama Drie]]'' ("Drama Three") and presented in the [[Aula]] on the [[University of Pretoria]] campus on 29 and 30 September. Directed by [[Anna Neethling-Pohl]] and performed by the first batch of third year students produced by the [[UP Departement Dramatologie|Departement Dramatologie]] at the University. The cast included [[Lerina Erasmus]], [[Elsabé Maré]], [[Estelle Zeeman]], [[Zandra van der Grijp]], [[Katinka Heyns]] and [[Zelda van der Merwe]]. |
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234835567550 | https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234835567550 | ||
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| + | https://doceww.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/person/467 | ||
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| + | [[George Ballot]] scrapbooks. (Provisionally held in the [[ESAT Archive]], with the kind permission of Prof Muller Ballot[http://www.stellenboschwriters.com/ballotm.html] and consulted 2024-1925). | ||
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]] | ||
Latest revision as of 08:32, 28 February 2025
Her Affairs in Order is an award-winning one-act play by Canadian author Mada Gage Bolton (c.1905-1995)[1].
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The original text
A tragic play about a murderess sentenced to a life sentence, who is released after ten years when diagnosed with an incurable disease. She returns home to confront her three sisters, who had not seen her in the meantime and to get her things in order before she dies.
First produced by the International One-Act Play Theatre at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, in November 8, 1936. The text published as Her Affairs in Order: Drama for Six Women in Three Prize One Act Plays and Two Others (1937), as one of the prize-winning plays.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans as Judith kom huis toe ("Judith comes home") by Lourens Fourie in the 1967.
Performance history in South Africa
1967: Performed as part of a programme of plays called Drama Drie ("Drama Three") and presented in the Aula on the University of Pretoria campus on 29 and 30 September. Directed by Anna Neethling-Pohl and performed by the first batch of third year students produced by the Departement Dramatologie at the University. The cast included Lerina Erasmus, Elsabé Maré, Estelle Zeeman, Zandra van der Grijp, Katinka Heyns and Zelda van der Merwe.
Sources
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234835567550
https://doceww.dhil.lib.sfu.ca/person/467
George Ballot scrapbooks. (Provisionally held in the ESAT Archive, with the kind permission of Prof Muller Ballot[2] and consulted 2024-1925).
Go to ESAT Bibliography
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