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''[[Tussenspel by 'n Bushalte]]'' ("Interlude at a busstop") is a radio drama by Morkel van Tonder (1923-2013)
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''[[Tussenspel by 'n Bushalte]]'' ("Interlude at a busstop") is a radio drama by [[Morkel van Tonder]] (1923-2013)
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
A radio drama written by radio announcer and author [[Morkel van Tonder]], the piece
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A radio drama about a man and a girl who meet at the bus stop, where he picks her up, with the implied possibility of a relationship. The ending, however, has a twist, as he is married and drives past the stop with cruel compassion.
brings together two would-be suicides ("Willem" and "Marie") on the roof of a tall building, the tenants of the first seven floors of which are symbolic of various stations of life. On the first level there is a registry office of births and deaths and then successively a life insurance company, a law firm, a pastoral psychologist, a marriage bureau, a doctor and an undertaker and these levels with their activities are then representative of the broad spectrum of existence from the beginning of life to death.
 
  
Published by [[Human & Rousseau]], first  in the collection ''[[Sewe Stasies en Ander Hoorspele]]'' (1983 and 1986) then included in ''[[Voort met die Spel]]'' (1991).
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Published by [[Human & Rousseau]] in the collection ''[[Sewe Stasies en Ander Hoorspele]]'' (1983 and 1986).
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Latest revision as of 06:20, 8 July 2025

Tussenspel by 'n Bushalte ("Interlude at a busstop") is a radio drama by Morkel van Tonder (1923-2013)

The original text

A radio drama about a man and a girl who meet at the bus stop, where he picks her up, with the implied possibility of a relationship. The ending, however, has a twist, as he is married and drives past the stop with cruel compassion.

Published by Human & Rousseau in the collection Sewe Stasies en Ander Hoorspele (1983 and 1986).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

Morkel van Tonder. 1983. Sewe Stasies en Ander Hoorspele. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau.

https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morkel_van_Tonder

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