Difference between revisions of "The Good Old Days"
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| − | A play about a woman's unhappy marriage and ultimate suicide, set in a psychiatric hospital | + | A play about the so-called immorality act in South Africa and a woman's unhappy marriage and ultimate suicide, set in a psychiatric hospital. |
| − | The text is unpublished. | + | The text is unpublished. An anonymous copy of the typed text held in the Drama Department archive, [[University of Stellenbosch]]. |
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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The Good Old Days often occurs in theatre, TV and film as the title of a dramatic work
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The Good Old Days as title
For example it occurs as the title of a 1940 British comedy (set in 1840), a popular BBC television light entertainment television program which ran from 1953 to 1983 or a 1996 Hong Kong drama series set in the early 20th century,
It is also found as The Good Old Days?, e.g. in a one-act play of that name by Liz Dobson[1]
South African examples
The Good Old Days by an unknown South African author
The original text
A play about the so-called immorality act in South Africa and a woman's unhappy marriage and ultimate suicide, set in a psychiatric hospital.
The text is unpublished. An anonymous copy of the typed text held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
The text of the typed text of The Good Old Days, held in the Drama Department archive, University of Stellenbosch.
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