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Text of ''[[Twee Voëls met Een Skoot]]'', [[DALRO]] 1969.  (Copy held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]]  ([[PARC]])  at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], Stellenbosch.)
  
  

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Kill Two Birds is a play by Philip Levene (1926-1973)[1].

Also found as Kill 2 Birds or To Kill Two Birds in some sources.

The original text

A play in three acts about blackmail, affairs and murder, every day life at a bird ringing centre. Performed in 1962-1963, opening at London's St Martin's Theatre in 1962 and the text was published by Samuel French in 1963.

Translations and adaptations

Translated into Afrikaans as Twee Voëls met Een Skoot by Mariechen Naudé (the source play wrongly given as To Kill Two Birds in the DALRO publication of the script).


Performance history in South Africa

1966: Twee Voëls met Een Skoot performed by PACOFS in the Bloemfontein Civic Theatre, directed by Jo Gevers with George Barnes and Colin Ward.

Sources

https://theatricalia.com/play/ef3/kill-2-birds/production/xar

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Philip-Levene/dp/B0000CLQUA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Levene

PACOFS Drama 25 Years, 1963-1988.

http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsL/levene-philip.html.

Text of Twee Voëls met Een Skoot, DALRO 1969. (Copy held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, Stellenbosch.)


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