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''The Sea my Winding Sheet'' is a radio play by [[Douglas Livingstone]]. A wry reworking of Luis De Camoes’s epic poem ''The Lusiads'', about the Adamastor myth, through which  Livingstone parodies the European-African encounter. Broadcast 1963, it was awarded BBC/Federal Broadcasting Corporation Prize 1963.  
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''The Sea my Winding Sheet'' is a radio play by [[Douglas Livingstone]].  
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A wry reworking of Luis De Camoes’s epic poem ''The Lusiads'', about the Adamastor myth, through which  Livingstone parodies the European-African encounter.  
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Broadcast 1963, it was awarded BBC/Federal Broadcasting Corporation Prize 1963.  
  
 
It was first staged in 1970/71*? by the [[Theatre Workshop Company]] of the University of Natal, under the direction of [[Pieter Scholtz]].  
 
It was first staged in 1970/71*? by the [[Theatre Workshop Company]] of the University of Natal, under the direction of [[Pieter Scholtz]].  

Revision as of 09:40, 13 January 2021

The Sea my Winding Sheet is a radio play by Douglas Livingstone.

A wry reworking of Luis De Camoes’s epic poem The Lusiads, about the Adamastor myth, through which Livingstone parodies the European-African encounter.

Broadcast 1963, it was awarded BBC/Federal Broadcasting Corporation Prize 1963.

It was first staged in 1970/71*? by the Theatre Workshop Company of the University of Natal, under the direction of Pieter Scholtz.

Published in Theatre One, edited by Stephen Gray, 1978. (See Gosher, 1988).


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