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A festival of new, original South African plays.  
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The [[PACT Potpourri Festival]] is a festival of new, original South African plays.  
  
  
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==The festival==
 
==The festival==
  
Created by [[PACT]] in the early 1980s. Among the plays that were launchged there over the years were ''[[The Last Twist of the Knife]]'' by [[Dieter Reible]]  (1987); ''[[Ngamasa]]'' by [[Themba ka-Nyathi]] (1987); ''[[Die Prys]]'' ("The Prize") by [[Andrew Wilson]] and [[Guy de Lancey]] (1987).   
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Created by [[PACT]] in the early 1980s as a place to showcase writing by [[PACT]] artists and other new writers.  
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Among the plays that were launched there over the years were ''[[The Last Twist of the Knife]]'' by [[Dieter Reible]]  (1987); ''[[Ngamasa]]'' by [[Themba ka-Nyathi]] (1987); ''[[Die Prys]]'' ("The Prize") by [[Andrew Wilson]] and [[Guy de Lancey]] (1987), Above the Wind by John Olive (in a local adaptation workshopped by [[Terrence Shank]] and the company, 1987), versioAbove the Wind
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 06:06, 21 December 2020

The PACT Potpourri Festival is a festival of new, original South African plays.


Also referred to simply as the Potpourri Festival, Pot Pourri Festival and Pot-Pourri Festival.

The festival

Created by PACT in the early 1980s as a place to showcase writing by PACT artists and other new writers.


Among the plays that were launched there over the years were The Last Twist of the Knife by Dieter Reible (1987); Ngamasa by Themba ka-Nyathi (1987); Die Prys ("The Prize") by Andrew Wilson and Guy de Lancey (1987), Above the Wind by John Olive (in a local adaptation workshopped by Terrence Shank and the company, 1987), versio. Above the Wind

Sources

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