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Translated into [[Afrikaans]] entitled ''[[Oupa en die Houtbord]]'' for a production by [[Port Elizabethse Afrikaanse Amateur Toneelvereniging|Peaat]]. | Translated into [[Afrikaans]] entitled ''[[Oupa en die Houtbord]]'' for a production by [[Port Elizabethse Afrikaanse Amateur Toneelvereniging|Peaat]]. | ||
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 04:47, 28 May 2022
The Wooden Dish is a play by Odessa-born American writer Edmund Morris (1912-1998).
Contents
The original text
The play was performed at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Louis Calhern in the cast in 1955.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into Afrikaans entitled Oupa en die Houtbord for a production by Peaat.
Translated and adapted as a radio text called Die Houtbord for the SABC by Jan Schutte.
Performance history in South Africa
1955: programme for the Johannesburg Repertory Players' production produced by Anthony Farmer with settings by him at the Reps Theatre, Johannesburg, from 15 March to 9 April 1955, and at the Groot Kerksaal, Pretoria, from 8 - 12 March 1955, in Playtime no. 104 of March 1955.
1960: Produced by the Dramatic Society of East London.
19??: Performed in Afrikaans as Oupa en die Houtbord by PEAAT (the Port Elizabethse Afrikaanse Amateur Toneelvereniging).
Sources
Programme published in Playtime no. 104 of March 1955 held by NELM: [Collection: FARMER, Anthony]: 2007. 18. 13. 1359.
IMDb [1].
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