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Revision as of 06:54, 13 May 2016

There are two plays by this title known in South Africa:

The Drummer by Joseph Addison (1715)

This is the shortened title for The Drummer, or The Haunted House a comedy by Joseph Addison (1672-1719).

See The Drummer, or The Haunted House

The Drummer by Athol Fugard

The original text

A short one-man improvisation piece with no dialogue, about a tramp rooting through rubbish and finding a drumstick, then a second. With these he starts playing a rhythm on an upturned tin can, rising above the ruckus of the city. A work originally commissioned for the Kentucky Festival of New American Plays and performed by Dierk Toporzysek in 1980.

A version of the text was published in My Children! My Africa! and Selected Short Plays by Wits University Press in 199*.

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

The Drummer - Athol Fugard: Playwrights and their Stage Works[1]

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