The Dam

There are two South African plays by this name.

The Dam by Guy Butler

A commissioned work for the 1952 Tercentenary Van Riebeeck Festival. A play about an English South African farmer’s relationships with his family and neighbours, and his vision of, yet doubts about, building a dam in the river. The dam and the implications of its building become a metaphor for Butler’s liberal view of the politics of the times.

First published by A.A. Balkema in 1953.

South African productions

1952: Produced by NTO, directed by Marda Vanne, with Rolf Lefebvre, Marcia Colville, June Range, Gerrit Wessels, Noëlle Ahrenson, Alan Chadwick, Michal Grobbelaar, Johan Malherbe, Frank Wise. Decor by Geoffrey Long.

Sources

Theatre programme, 1952.

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The Dam by Archibald J.A. Wilson

A one-act play. Published by DALRO in 1970.

South African productions

Presented by the Repertory Theatre Society, later known as the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society performed on 11 March 1941.

Sources

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