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== The original text ==
 
== The original text ==
  
Basing his public comment on his experience in the building trade, the playwright launches a scathing attack on  the authorities in the 1970s for spending the equivalent of the cost of a stable on a house in Chatsworth - when the stables were more structurally sound than these badly-constructed dwellings.  
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[[Kessie Govender]]'s first play.  Basing his public comment on his experience in the building trade, the playwright launches a scathing attack on  the authorities in the 1970s for spending the equivalent of the cost of a stable on a house in Chatsworth - when the stables were more structurally sound than these badly-constructed dwellings.
 
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 08:18, 11 June 2014

A play by Kessie Govender.

The original text

Kessie Govender's first play. Basing his public comment on his experience in the building trade, the playwright launches a scathing attack on the authorities in the 1970s for spending the equivalent of the cost of a stable on a house in Chatsworth - when the stables were more structurally sound than these badly-constructed dwellings.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

The play was first performed by the Stable Theatre Company in the 1970s, and gave a name to both the company and the Stable Theatre they used.


Sources

Loren Kruger, 1999: 148

http://www.stabletheatre.co.za/

http://www.kessiegovender.org/


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