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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]].
  
Translated and adapted as a radio text called ''[[Die Houtbord]]'' for the [[SABC]] by [[Jan Schutte]].
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Translated and adapted as a radio text called ''[[Die Houtbord]]'' for the [[SABC]] by [[Jan Schutte]]. Broadcast in the program ''[[Radioteater]]'' on the Afrikaans service of the [[SABC]] on 4 May, 1962 at 19h30.
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 04:50, 28 May 2022

The Wooden Dish is a play by Odessa-born American writer Edmund Morris (1912-1998).

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. Broadcast in the program Radioteater on the Afrikaans service of the SABC on 4 May, 1962 at 19h30.

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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