Difference between revisions of "Coming Home"
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 05:04, 20 May 2021
There are at least two South African plays entitled Coming Home.
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Coming Home a musical by Kriben Pillay (1993)
The play
This is an adaptation and renaming by Pillay of the musical Side by Side Masisizane (Pillay, Devar and Caminsky, 1989), which tells the same story but in the context of exiles returning home. It premiered at the Standard Bank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown in 1993 as part of the main festival.
Sources
"UTEL saves historic theatre productions for the archives", Alumni Relations, University of Kwazulu-Natal (October 31, 2018)[1]
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Coming Home a play by Athol Fugard (2009)
Coming Home is a play by Athol Fugard (1932-).
The original text
The play is a sequel to Fugard's Valley Song (1995), and continues the story of Veronica Jonkers's journey after the incidents recorded in the earlier play.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2009: Staged in The Studio at the Baxter Theatre, directed by Ross Devenish, with Bronwyn van Graan (Veronica), Terry Hector (Grandpa), David Isaacs and child actors Devan Walbrugh and Cinga Vanda.
Sources
Die Burger, 19 March 2009
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