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Mara is the title used for numerous literary products over the years, usually as a reference to the Biblical Mara or Marah, the well of bitterness. At least at least four South African plays bear the name:
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Mara by Abraham Matthee
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Mara by Herman Charles Bosman
The original text
An English one-act play, named for the Biblical well of bitterness, it was Bosman's first, written under the pseudonym Herman Malan. It deals with the issue of incest in the form of a prose duologue in two scenes between a sister and brother.
Published in 1932 by the African Publications and Courier News Agency, Wardrobe Court, 146 Queen Victoria Street, London E.C.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Mara by J.F.W. Grosskopf
This is title used for the play Oorlog is Oorlog when it was directed by Anna Neethling-Pohl for Volksteater in 1941.
See the entry on Oorlog is Oorlog
Mara by S.J. Rheeder
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
South African Opinion, 1(4), 1944
Lional Abrahams. 2001. "Mr. Bosman: A Protégé's Memoir of Herman Charles Bosman", English in Africa Vol. 28, No. 2 (Oct., 2001), pp. 11-47 (37 pages)[1]
Nel, Frederik Jacobus 1972. Die Kaapstadse Afrikaanse Toneelvereniging, 1934-1962. Unpublished master’s thesis. Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch.
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