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=''[[Die Bywoners]]'' - the play= | =''[[Die Bywoners]]'' - the play= | ||
Revision as of 06:03, 20 December 2020
The title Die Bywoners ("the tenant farmers" "or "the sharecroppers") can refer to a theatre company or to a play.
Die Bywoners: The theatre company
Die Bywoners("The sharecroppers") (also billed as Die Bywoners Teaterproduksies) was an Afrikaans production company, founded in Johannesburg by Schalk Jacobsz and Elma Potgieter in 1980, with the aim of producing independent , indigenous works in Afrikaans.
They produced the first Afrikaans translation of Athol Fugard's play Hello and Goodbye, called Hallo en Koebaai, directed by Jan Engelen. It starred Schalk Jacobsz and Elna Potgieter and was staged at Upstairs at the Market in 1981 ***
Other shows were Die Eensame Vlug. From 1980 S. Jacobs & she
They did Hallo & Koebaai for TV with Bill Flynn & Yvonne Bryceland. (Tucker, 1997)
Die Bywoners Teaterproduksies:
1981 – Hallo & Koebaai! (Athol Fugard vertaal deur Schalk Jacobsz) Upstairs by die Mark in 1981;
1982 – Hallo & Koebaai vir Freddy Philander-Produksies in Namibië;
1983 – Darling Blossom – eenvrouvertoning deur Elma Potgieter in Johannesburg;
1986 – Die Wildsboudjie ter viering van Johannesburgse Eeufees – die enigste Afrikaanse produksie vir die geleentheid;
1986 – Hoer of Heilige deur Corlia Fourie – spelers: Elma Potgieter en Karin Retief;
198*: Boesman en Lena (Athol Fugard)
1996 – Moervrug, a one woman performance by Elma Potgieter, adapted by her from Engemi Ferreira's novella, Die Jaar Toe My Ma Begin Sing Het (The year my mother began to sing").
Die Bywoners - the play
Die Bywoners is the title given to one of the many Afrikaans translations done of Athol Fugard's English play Boesman and Lena.
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