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| − | A | + | A 10 minute, one-man, improvisation piece with no dialogue, about a tramp rooting through rubbish and finding a drumstick, then a second. With these he starts playing a rhythm on an upturned tin can, rising above the ruckus of the city. A work originally commissioned for the Kentucky Festival of New American Plays and produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, directed by Michael Hankins and performed by Dierk Toporzysek on February 27, 1980. |
| − | + | The text published by Samuel French in ''Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville'' in 1989 and in ''[[My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays]]'' by [[Wits University Press]] (edited by [[Stephen Gray]]) in 1990. | |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
Revision as of 07:05, 13 May 2016
There are two plays by this title known in South Africa:
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The Drummer by Joseph Addison (1715)
This is the shortened title for The Drummer, or The Haunted House a comedy by Joseph Addison (1672-1719).
See The Drummer, or The Haunted House
The Drummer by Athol Fugard
The original text
A 10 minute, one-man, improvisation piece with no dialogue, about a tramp rooting through rubbish and finding a drumstick, then a second. With these he starts playing a rhythm on an upturned tin can, rising above the ruckus of the city. A work originally commissioned for the Kentucky Festival of New American Plays and produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, directed by Michael Hankins and performed by Dierk Toporzysek on February 27, 1980.
The text published by Samuel French in Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1989 and in My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays by Wits University Press (edited by Stephen Gray) in 1990.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
The Drummer - Athol Fugard: Playwrights and their Stage Works[1]
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